Re: [Fink-beginners] cannot install xfree86 on Intel

[Hisashi T F. <ht...@tw...>]

Check "fink info xfree86" and "fink info xfree86-shlibs"

I bet nothing was installed so you don't have to worry about deleting
anything. Remember to install the Apple X11 SDK as well.

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Zinaida Benenson wrote:

> On 09 Apr 2006, at 05:51, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
>
>> One is to use Apple's X11 (on the disks that came with your Mac) the
>> other is to delete a bunch of stuff and start over, compiling
>> everything by yourself and not using any pre-compiled binaries.
>
> If I use Apple's X11, I suppose I have to delete my xfree86 
> quasi-installation as well?
> Can somebody give me an advice, what and how? Has somebody already done it?
> I found the following here (scroll down to Section 3.6):
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php?phpLang=en
> <quote>
> To manually, remove them, you use the dpkg with the --force-depends option, 
> like so:
> sudo dpkg -r --force-depends xfree86-rootless\
> xfree86-rootless-shlibs xfree86-base xfree86-base-shlibs
> </quote>
>
> So should I use this, what do you think? Should I then type this? (below)
> sudo dpkg -r --force-depends xfree86\ xfree86-shlibs
>
> Besides, I would like to make sure that I really have to remove xfree86.
>
> Are there any users at this list who have the Intel Mac and have
> successfully installed xfree86?
>
> And the most important question, does somebody understand what
> happened at my system?
>
>>> 
>>> --------------------------
>>> $ sudo apt-get install xfree86
> [...]
>>> Setting up xfree86-shlibs (4.5.0-1024) ...
>>> Setting up xfree86 (4.5.0-1024) ...
>>> /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/xfree86.postinst: line 23: 12868 Segmentation fault 
>>> /usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache
>>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing xfree86 (--configure):
>>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>> xfree86
>>> E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> For me, it looks like xfree86 was installed, but then something happened,
> because some "subprocess post-installation script returned error".
> Am I right? Then I should probably install something else from, say,
> development kits, and try again? I was actually amazed that fink got
> installed without any problems, even if I didn't quite understand
> installation instructions... (any developers reading this list? good work!)
>
>
>
>

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