Dear Alexander, On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> Peter Young wrote: >> Dear "monipol", >> >>> Hello, Peter. Maybe you need to run an extra selfupdate. Try >>> following the >>> instructions available on the following FAQ entry: >>> >>> http://www.finkproject.org/faq/upgrade-fink.php >>> >> Thanks for the info. I followed those instructions, i.e. >> >> fink selfupdate >> fink selfupdate-rsync >> fink index -f >> fink selfupdate >> >> followed by >> >> fink install tetex-base >> >> This time, instead of bombing out right at the beginning, it went >> through a huge amount of stuff, so I was optimistic, but unfortunately >> it failed at the end with: >> >> Reading Package Lists... >> Building Dependency Tree... >> Failed: can't install package tetex-base-3.0-1006 >> >> I would be willing to wipe out /sw and start from scratch if you think >> this would solve the problem. >> >> Best wishes, > You've completely cut out the real error message. "can't install > package..." is the _result_ of literally any install-phase failure. > > The actual error is somewhere above all of that stuff. Try doing "fink > install tetex-base" again, and look for an earlier error. Because the > failure was at install time, fink should use the binary that you've just > compiled as part of your prior attempt. > > If you remove /sw and reinstall Fink, I'll predict you're going to be > exactly in the same place again. Fink is highly deterministic in how it > operates. > I looked over the messages generated on the screen the last time I tried to install tetex-base. I find the following: ############################################################################### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /sw/var/lib/texmf/web2c for details. ############################################################################### I looked at the mentioned log files. In lambda.log, latex.log, and pdflatex.log I find !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file ! That is more than five years old. ! ! If you enter <return> to scroll past this message then the format ! will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files ! before continuing to build LaTeX. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't find any other error messages. Best wishes, -- Peter Young *==================================================================* * Address : Physics Department, University of California, * * : Santa Cruz, CA 95064 * * e-mail : [email protected] * * WWW : http://physics.ucsc.edu/~peter * * Tel. : (831) 459-4151, messages (2329), Fax : (831) 459-3043 * *==================================================================* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
