> I'm not sure how "the latter two are not installed" on your system, > given that "fink list -u" displays up-to-date INSTALLED packages.
Below is a session transcript that clearly shows that neither fftw, nor fftw3 nor gcc46 are installed: $ fink remove fftw Information about 4955 packages read in 7 seconds. WARNING: fftw is not installed, skipping. Nothing removed $ fink remove fftw3 Information about 4955 packages read in 1 seconds. WARNING: fftw3 is not installed, skipping. Nothing removed $ fink list -ut | cut -f2 | xargs fink dumpinfo -finfofile | grep "info$" | sort | uniq | cut -d: -f2 | xargs grep -l gcc46 not found. not found. /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/gettext-tools.info /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/gcc46.info /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/fftw.info /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/fftw3.info $ fink remove gcc46 Information about 4955 packages read in 1 seconds. WARNING: gcc46 is not installed, skipping. Nothing removed $ > What does "fink list -o" return? Since you've followed Option 1, we can > at least tell what package(s) still remain to be updated. This is what "fink list -o" returns (note that I have manually been able to use "fink install ..." on packages reported in this list: (i) hdf5.7 1.8.9-1 Scientific data format (v1.8 API)--headers (i) hdf5.7-bin 1.8.9-1 Scientific data format (v1.8 API)--executables (i) hdf5.7-shlibs 1.8.9-1 Scientific data format (v1.8 API)--shared C/C++ libraries (i) libcurl4 7.26.0-1 Lib. for transferring files with URL syntax (i) libcurl4-shlibs 7.26.0-1 Lib. for transferring files with URL syntax (i) libmikmod3 3.2.0-beta4-1 Sound library for playing MOD modules (i) libmikmod3-shlibs 3.2.0-beta4-1 Sound library for playing MOD modules (i) libmpfr4 3.1.0-5.p10 C floating-point math lib (i) libmpfr4-shlibs 3.1.0-5.p10 Shared libraries for mpfr package (i) libvorbis0 1.3.3-2 Vorbis audio codec headers and libs for devs (i) libvorbis0-shlibs 1.3.3-2 Vorbis audio codec shared libraries (i) openmotif3-shlibs 2.2.4-7 Official Implementation of OSF/Motif (i) openmotif4 2.3.3-1 Official Implementation of OSF/Motif (i) openmotif4-shlibs 2.3.3-1 Official Implementation of OSF/Motif (i) openmpi-shlibs 1.5.5-2 Shared libraries for openmpi package (i) passwd-core 20100305-5 User and group entries for daemons: core pkg (i) passwd-games 20100305-5 User and group entries for the games-files owner (i) passwd-messagebus 20100305-5 User and group entries for the dbus daemon (i) unrar 4.2.3-1 RAR archive decoder (i) xrootd 3.2.1-11 Distributed access to data repositories (i) xrootd-dev 3.2.1-11 Distributed access to data repositories On Jun 12, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 6/12/12 5:42 AM, Dr. Wolfram Schroers wrote: >> Option 1. seems to work. >> >> Option 2. returns >> "/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/languages/gcc46.info". I did not >> install gcc46, so I don't know what to do with that information. > Iterating the command with "gcc46" returns "gettext-tools", "fftw" and > "fftw3". The latter two are not installed on my system, but the former > is used by a large number of packages (including gcc46). > > I'm not sure how "the latter two are not installed" on your system, > given that "fink list -u" displays up-to-date INSTALLED packages. > > In any event gettext-tools doesn't _use_ gcc46, but rather has a build > conflict against it. > >> >> Do I understand it correctly that attempting to install a package that >> depends indirectly on the JDK header files will move Fink into a state where >> I need to manually search and fix the dependency-tree to recover from? >> >> > > No. You just can't run "fink update-all" with your given installed > package setup. > > ppl9 won't build if it can't find Java headers. > > It may be the case that the build process will actually find them, and > it just happens that you're missing the piece that Fink is looking for. > Other people have had this problem before and have been able to satisfy > Fink by adding a symbolic link. > > Or it may be the case that ppl9 can be configured not to try to build > Java stuff. I don't know if supports that, however. > > What does "fink list -o" return? Since you've followed Option 1, we can > at least tell what package(s) still remain to be updated. > > > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ 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