Re: [Fink-beginners] Error installing packages

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

I was afraid of that.

Assuming you want to have Apple's X11 installed, do the following:

1)  run

sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends xfree86-shlibs

2)  reinstall the X11User and X11SDK packages.

3) Check and see that you have system-xfree86, system-xfree86-shlibs 
and system-xfree86-dev.

On Feb 27, 2004, at 11:29 AM, Joel Daynes wrote:

> fink list xfree86 returns:
>
> Information about 1300 packages read in 1 seconds.
>  i   system-xfree86             2:4.3.99-2           [placeholder for 
> user
> installed x11]
>  i   system-xfree86-dev         2:4.3.99-2           [placeholder for 
> user
> installed x11 development tools]
>  i   system-xfree86-shlibs      2:4.3.99-2           [placeholder for 
> user
> installed x11 shared libraries]
>      xfree86                    4.3.99.16-2          Free X11
> implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X
>      xfree86-base-threaded                           [virtual package]
>      xfree86-base-threaded-...                       [virtual package]
>      xfree86-rootless-threaded                       [virtual package]
>      xfree86-rootless-threa...                       [virtual package]
>  i   xfree86-shlibs             4.3.99.16-2          Free X11
> implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X
>
>
> Joel
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Joel Daynes wrote:
>>
>>> I tried doing what you suggested, with the following result:
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install dlcompat-shlibs
>>> Password:
>>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>>> Sorry, dlcompat-shlibs is already the newest version.
>>> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
>>> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>   xfree86: Conflicts: xfree86-base-threaded
>>>            Conflicts: system-xfree86 but 2:4.3.99-2 is to be 
>>> installed
>>>   xfree86-shlibs: Conflicts: xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs
>>>                   Conflicts: system-xfree86 but 2:4.3.99-2 is to be
>>> installed
>>> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
>>> specify a solution).
>>>
>>
>> <AKH>  Oh-Oh.  What do you get from "fink list xfree86"?
>>
>>> Having not done a whole lot of dependency solving on my own in the
>>> past,
>>> how do I go about solving the unmet dependencies listed? I tried
>>> apt-get
>>> -f install, as it suggests, with the following result:
>>>
>>>  sudo apt-get -f install
>>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>>> Correcting dependencies... Done
>>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>>   system-xfree86 system-xfree86-shlibs
>>> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 11  not
>>> upgraded.
>>> 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
>>> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>>> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86 which isn't
>>> installed.
>>> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86-shlibs 
>>> which
>>> isn't installed.
>>> Setting up xfree86 (4.3.99.16-2) ...
>>> ERROR: /etc/X11 exists, but is not a symlink to /usr/X11R6/etc.
>>> dpkg: error processing xfree86 (--configure):
>>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  xfree86
>>> E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>>
>>>
>>> Any more suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks-
>>> Joel
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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Alexander Hansen
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