Here is what happens: -bash3.2 rmiles $sudo dpkg -r --force-depends texlive-texmf;fink install texlive-texmf /sw32/bin/dpkg: error processing texlive-texmf (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-texmf Information about 10258 packages read in 2 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: texlive-texmf Reading buildlock packages... Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies!
Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be able to fix things by running: fink scanpackages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install texlive-texmf=0.20100722-5 Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies -bash3.2 rmiles $sudo dpkg -r --force-depends texlive-texmf /sw32/bin/dpkg: error processing texlive-texmf (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-texmf -bash3.2 rmiles $fink install texlive-texmf Information about 10258 packages read in 1 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: texlive-texmf Reading buildlock packages... Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies! Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be able to fix things by running: fink scanpackages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install texlive-texmf=0.20100722-5 Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies -bash3.2 rmiles $fink scanpackages Updating the list of locally available binary packages. Scanning dists/local/main/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-i386 -bash3.2 rmiles $sudo apt-get update Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done -bash3.2 rmiles $sudo apt-get install texlive-texmf=0.20100722-5 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: tetex-base: Depends: tetex-texmf (>= 3.0-1) E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). -bash3.2 rmiles $apt-get -f install E: Could not open lock file /sw32/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/sw32/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? -bash3.2 rmiles $sudo apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: texlive-texmf 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] /sw32/bin/dpkg: error processing texlive-texmf (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: texlive-texmf E: Sub-process /sw32/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) On May 22, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 5/22/11 4:04 PM, Richard Miles wrote: >> Here is what I get: >> -bash3.2 rmiles $fink install texlive-texmf >> Password: >> Information about 10258 packages read in 2 seconds. >> The following package will be installed or updated: >> texlive-texmf >> Reading buildlock packages... >> Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies! >> >> Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be able to >> fix things by running: >> >> fink scanpackages >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install texlive-texmf=0.20100722-5 >> >> Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies >> Richard Miles >> richard.mile...@gmail.com >> >> >> > > OK. 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