The error message suggests that you already had transfig-graphicx installed, so I think my suggestion would just reset your system to what was originally there.
T. S. Ferreira wrote: > I have a large LaTeX text which uses heavily fig2dev figure > preprocessing, so that I don't want to fiddle with this package until > I am sure that it is safe! I confess I know very little about the > inner workings of fink and its relatives :-(. > > Thanks anyway, > > -- tsf > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alexander > Hansen<[email protected]> wrote: > T. S. Ferreira wrote: > >>> When I run "fink update-all" on my iMac (Mac OS X 10.5.8), I get the > >>> following output: > >>> > >>> ---------------------- > >>> root[10:36:36::~]<2> fink update-all > >>> Information about 4353 packages read in 0 seconds. > >>> The following 6 packages will be installed or updated: > >>> libwww-pm588 transfig xml-parser-pm588 xml-sax-expat-pm588 > >>> xml-sax-pm588 xml-simple-pm588 > >>> The following 2 additional packages will be installed: > >>> html-parser-pm588 uri-pm588 > >>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > >>> Reading buildlock packages... > >>> All buildlocks accounted for. > >>> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i > >>> > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/graphics/transfig_3.2.4-7_darwin-i386.deb > >>> (Reading database ... 167308 files and directories currently > installed.) > >>> Preparing to replace transfig 3.2.4-6 (using > >>> .../transfig_3.2.4-7_darwin-i386.deb) ... > >>> Unpacking replacement transfig ... > >>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing > >>> > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/graphics/transfig_3.2.4-7_darwin-i386.deb > >>> (--install): > >>> trying to overwrite `/sw/bin/fig2dev', which is also in package > >>> transfig-graphicx > >>> /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > >>> Errors were encountered while processing: > >>> > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/graphics/transfig_3.2.4-7_darwin-i386.deb > >>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1 > >>> Failed: can't install package transfig-3.2.4-7 > >>> ---------------------- > >>> > >>> Any hints on how to solve the problem? > >>> > You could remove "transfig" and do a "fink reinstall transfig-graphicx", > since you already have that installed and it's a newer version. > > I'm not at all clear why transfig-graphicx|epsfig and the older transfig > package don't Conflict/Replace each other. I'm also not sure why the > old transfig is being kept around. I'll cc the maintainer. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
