Re: [Fink-beginners] Trouble installing lesstif

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Barry Baker wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I am trying to install lesstif with finkcommander and getting the following
> error
> 
> Building Dependency Tree...
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   lesstif-shlibs: Depends: x11 but it is not installable. For Fink users,
> this often means that you have attempted to install a package from the
> binary distribution which depends on a "Restrictive" package. See
> <http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#bindist>,
> <http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/packages.php#bin-exceptions>
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> 
> I have installed Apple's X11 and it seems to work fine.  Any ideas what may
> be going on?

What do you get from "fink list x11"? It would also be good to know what 
version of fink, MacOS, lesstif you are talking about.

-- 
Martin