Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-27 Thread david bonde
At 00.07 +0200 04-07-27, Martin Costabel wrote/04-07-27, 00.07 +0200 skrev Martin Costabel Yes, Alex found it odd, too. You could run fink-virtual-pkgs and then look at the paragraph talking about system-xfree86-dev, in particular the provides line. Mine says provides: x11-dev, libgl-dev,

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-27 Thread Martin Costabel
[] Package: system-xfree86-dev Status: install ok installed Version: 2:4.3-2 provides: x11-dev, libgl-dev, xft2-dev, fontconfig1-dev description: [placeholder for user installed x11 development tools] builddependsonly: true (but now I have installed X11 SDK) Is the case closed or do you need some

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread david bonde
At 18.40 -0400 04-07-25, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-25, 18.40 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen OK, this is good: the packages are built but not installed. Try running dpkg -l *xfree86* to see if you have any half-installed bits of XFree86 installed by some chance. % dpkg -l *xfree86*

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 26, 2004, at 2:33 AM, david bonde wrote: At 18.40 -0400 04-07-25, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-25, 18.40 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen OK, this is good: the packages are built but not installed. Try running dpkg -l *xfree86* to see if you have any half-installed bits of

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread david bonde
At 08.26 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 08.26 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen % dpkg -l *xfree86* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 26, 2004, at 11:45 AM, david bonde wrote: At 08.26 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 08.26 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen % dpkg -l *xfree86* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half- installed |/

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:40 PM, david bonde wrote: At 12.03 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 12.03 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen And you do have system-xfree86-dev. This is mysterious to me. I do? How can I see that? Can I do something to save my fink-installation or should I

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:40 PM, david bonde wrote: At 12.03 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 12.03 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen And you do have system-xfree86-dev. This is mysterious to me. I do? How can I see that? Can I do something to save my

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread david bonde
At 13.09 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 13.09 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen Run fink list -i system-xfree86. I could have sworn you posted an earlier message showing that you had system-xfree86-dev. % fink list -i system-xfree86 Information about 1722 packages read in 11

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread david bonde
At 20.12 +0200 04-07-26, Martin Costabel wrote/04-07-26, 20.12 +0200 skrev Martin Costabel Last time we had such a persistent case, there was still some file from the X11SDK.pkg missing, although this package had been reinstalled twice. The third time it worked. The missing file was

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-26 Thread Martin Costabel
david bonde wrote: [] i system-xfree86-dev2:4.3-2 [placeholder for user installed x11 development tools] i system-xfree86-sh... 2:4.3-2 [placeholder for user installed x11 shared libraries] Isn't that odd if I don't have the SDK installed? Yes, Alex found it odd,

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-25 Thread david bonde
At 09.33 -0400 04-07-20, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-20, 09.33 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen Thanks for your answer. I have made some progress but is not done yet. Can you quote from further back in the error message? This isn't very helpful--this could be the error from having an

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-25 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 25, 2004, at 6:20 AM, david bonde wrote: At 09.33 -0400 04-07-20, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-20, 09.33 -0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen Thanks for your answer. I have made some progress but is not done yet. Can you quote from further back in the error message? This isn't very

[Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-20 Thread david bonde
When I try to install ghostscript: % sudo fink install ghostscript and picking all the default choices the installation process ends up with this error message: ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't batch-install packages:

Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

2004-07-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jul 20, 2004, at 6:58 AM, david bonde wrote: When I try to install ghostscript: % sudo fink install ghostscript and picking all the default choices the installation process ends up with this error message: You shouldn't necessarily pick the defaults, by the way. ### execution of dpkg failed,