Re: [Fink-beginners] fink and dpgk disagree over install state

[marykat <ma...@ka...>]

*lightbulb clicks on as previous discussions on xfree86 fall into 
place*  Thanks Benjamin.

I guess then I must report that Eric's fix from 30 Oct 2003 in the the 
"Why does fink download xfree864211 sources?" thread does not work for 
me.  (everything worked for him once he removed system-xfree86 and 
related packages "as descriped in the faq
for Users running Panther and Apple's X11 1.0." even though we're not 
running Panther and we're using XDarwin. )

Fink still insists that I need to install xfree86 and related to 
install abiword.  Then again, maybe this will be fixed when I figure 
out how to get fink using the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree.  But I'm already 
discussing that in a different thread.

Thanks Benjamin and Eric for your help, if I'm still having problems 
after I get into the right tree, I'll revive the thread.

-- mary

On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 08:58  AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:

> marykat wrote:
>
>> I tried this this afternoon and ran into a problem.  I can't seem to 
>> get rid of system-xfree86.  dpkg says it's not installed, and fink 
>> says it is.

> it doesn't show up in a dpkg list, but fink is basically magically 
> providing system-xfree86 for you, based on what it finds on your 
> system.  This is normal behavior.