I've been round this loop a few times now, trying to do a fresh install of octave-atlas:
fink install bundle-octave324-atlas Information about 10522 packages read in 1 seconds. fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) fltk-backend-aqua-oct324: Graphics backend for octave-3.2.4 (2) fltk-backend-x11-oct324: Graphics backend for octave-3.2.4 Pick one: [1] 2 The following package will be installed or updated: bundle-octave324-atlas The following 79 additional packages will be installed: actuarial-oct324 arpack-atlas arpack-atlas-shlibs audio-oct324 benchmark-oct324 bim-oct324 bioinfo-oct324 civil-engineering-oct324 combinatorics-oct324 control-oct324 data-smoothing-oct324 dataframe-oct324 econometrics-oct324 engine-oct324 fenv-oct324 financial-oct324 fits-oct324 fl-core-oct324 fltk-backend-x11-oct324 fpl-oct324 fuzzy-logic-toolkit-oct324 general-oct324 generate-html-oct324 gnuplot-oct324 gsl-oct324 image-oct324 informationtheory-oct324 integration-oct324 io-oct324 irsa-oct324 java-oct324 linear-algebra-atlas-oct324 mapping-oct324 miscellaneous-oct324 missing-functions-oct324 msh-oct324 multicore-oct324 nan-atlas-oct324 nlwing2-oct324 nnet-oct324 nurbs-oct324 ocs-oct324 oct2mat-oct324 octave324-atlas octave324-atlas-dev octave324-atlas-shlibs octclip-oct324 octproj-oct324 odepkg-atlas-oct324 openmpi-ext-oct324 optim-oct324 optiminterp-oct324 outliers-oct324 parallel-oct324 pdb-oct324 physicalconstants-oct324 plot-oct324 quaternion-oct324 secs1d-oct324 secs2d-oct324 secs3d-oct324 signal-oct324 simp-oct324 sockets-oct324 specfun-oct324 special-matrix-oct324 spline-gcvspl-oct324 splines-oct324 statistics-oct324 strings-oct324 struct-oct324 symband-oct324 symbolic-oct324 time-oct324 tsa-oct324 video-oct324 vrml-oct324 xraylib-oct324 zenity-oct324 The following package might be temporarily removed: fort77 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-x86_64/sci/arpack-atlas_96patched-6_darwin-x86_64.deb /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/sci/arpack-atlas-shlibs_96patched-6_darwin-x86_64.deb Selecting previously deselected package arpack-atlas. dpkg: considering removing arpack in favour of arpack-atlas ... dpkg: yes, will remove arpack in favour of arpack-atlas. (Reading database ... 285483 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking arpack-atlas (from .../arpack-atlas_96patched-6_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package arpack-atlas-shlibs. dpkg: considering removing arpack-shlibs in favour of arpack-atlas-shlibs ... dpkg: yes, will remove arpack-shlibs in favour of arpack-atlas-shlibs. Unpacking arpack-atlas-shlibs (from .../arpack-atlas-shlibs_96patched-6_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... Setting up arpack-atlas-shlibs (96patched-6) ... Setting up arpack-atlas (96patched-6) ... Reading buildlock packages... All buildlocks accounted for. While trying to install: arpack-96patched-6 The following inconsistencies found: Unsatisfied dependency in arpack: arpack-shlibs (= 96patched-6) Trying to resolve dependencies... 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 arpack=96patched-6 Failed: Fink::SysState: Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies Do what it suggests, and you just go round the loop again. How do I get past it? This is on 10.6.8 with everything else up to date: i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3) Package manager version: 0.31.3 Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Fri Oct 21 15:35:13 2011, 10.6, x86_64 Trees: local/main local/crypto stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/crypto Many thanks, -- Viv ________________________________________________ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv tel: +44 113 343 4864 Physics and Astronomy Quantum Information Group University of Leeds v.ken...@leeds.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users