Re: [Fink-users] Help with install error

[Alexander K. H. <ha...@ps...>]

Hmmm...

I didn't find anything in the source distribution that that required mesa as
opposed to other sources for libgl.  I'm not sure about what the binary
files from dselect may have in them, though.  Maybe try that dselect again,
and see which package is troublesome, then see if you can install it from
source instead.

On 3/7/02 14:37, "Thomas A Isenbarger" <is...@mo...> wrote:

> On 3/7/02 2:30 PM, "Alexander K. Hansen" <ha...@ps...> wrote:
> 
>> Are you sure you need mesa?  You get the opengl libraries from recent
>> xfree86-rootless builds, too.
>> 
>> On 3/7/02 14:07, "Thomas A Isenbarger" <is...@mo...> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Unpacking mesa (from .../mesa_3.5-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
>>>> 
>>>> You already have OpenGL libraries in /usr/X11R6. This package refuses to
>>>> overwrite them. Remove them, then tell Fink to install mesa again.
>>>> Alternatively, install the appropriate placeholder package (system-xtools
>>>> or system-libgl) to make the manually installed libraries known to Fink.
> 
> I was trying to install several things using dselect.  I cannot remember
> what now, but something listed mesa as a dependency and so it wanted to
> install it.
> 
> Tom

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