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On 1/10/10 4:43 PM, Rafal Mantiuk wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 19:44, Alexander Hansen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 1/8/10 5:39 AM, Rafal Mantiuk wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When I was trying to upgrade latex, configuration of tetex-base failed
>>> with an error. I attach the log below (I have shortened it to show
>>> only relevant error messages). The same problem is with 'tetex-nox'.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> "apt-get" is currently not that useful on 10.6 other than for some
>> manipulation of packages that you may already have on your system,
>> because there is no official binary distribution for 10.6.  Unless, of
>> course, you enable an unofficial binary distribution.
>>
>> There is a known issue with tetex-base that was fixed in the source
>> trees, But the version of tetex that you're working with isn't in our
>> 10.6 package list (and predates the fix).  Did you upgrade your machine
>> from 10.5?  If so, let's see the output of
>>
>> fink -V | head -n2
>>
> 
> Thanks, that helped!
> 
> I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard but did not reinstall fink
> after that.  It worked fine until I tried to upgrade some packages.
> 
> Once I installed fink from scratch, tetex got upgraded to 3.0-1006 and
> the problem disappeared. The only problem is that installing new
> packages takes ages because everything needs to be compiled. I miss
> binary packages.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rafal
> 

That would explain it.  There are upgrade instructions posted at
www.finkproject.org, too; but a clean update is fine, too.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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