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Re: [Fink-users] "install gv" tries to downgrade system-ghostcript
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From: Alexander H. <ha...@ld...> - 2003-02-28 17:11:32
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On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:53, Karl Rubin wrote: > I have system-ghostscript 7.05-3 installed. When I try to install > gv, I, get: > > > The following package will be installed or updated: > > gv > > The following additional package will be installed: > > system-ghostscript > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > If I say "yes", it tries to downgrade my system-ghostscript to 6.01-1: > > > dpkg - warning: downgrading system-ghostscript from 7.05-3 to 6.01-1. > > This fails, telling me that I don't have ghostscript 6.01 installed > (which is correct, I have 7.05). The downgrading didn't happen (last > week) when I did the same thing on another machine. > I looked at the .info files for system-ghostscript-7.05-3 and system-ghostscript6-6.01-1, and I saw something striking: system-ghostscript6-6.01-1: ... Provides: ghostscript, ghostscript6, ghostscript-fonts ... system-ghostscript-7.05-3: ... Provides: ghostscript-nox, ghostscript-fonts ... i.e. system-ghostscript-7.05-3 doesn't provide ghostscript. > One more piece of information: in Fink Commander, if I ask for info > on the system-ghostscript package, it tells me > > > Installed: 7.05-3 > > Unstable: 6.01-1 > > Stable: 7.05-3 > > Binary: None > This looks reversed to me: I have 7.05-3 in unstable and 6.01-1 in stable. Double-check to be sure. > This (the unstable) does not agree with the fink webpage; I don't > know where it is getting this information. > > Has something gotten corrupted in my fink installation, and how can > I fix it? > Possibly not. > Thanks. > > Karl > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > Fin...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 |