[Fink-users] Re(2): Installing dbus Fails

[Emily J. <m5c...@ea...>]

At 3:10 PM -0500 on Saturday, June 20, 2009, Alexander Hansen
<ale...@gm...> wrote:

>Emily Jackson wrote:
>> At 2:18 PM -0500 on Saturday, June 20, 2009, Alexander Hansen
>> <ale...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Emily Jackson wrote:
>>>     
>>>> When I tried to install the latest version of dbus, I got the following
>>>> message:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       
><snip>
>>>> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>>   dbus-dev: Depends: dbus-shlibs (= 1.2.6-1) but 1.2.12-10 is to be
>>>>       
>>> installed
>>>     
>>>> E: Sorry, broken packages
>>>>
>>>> (I am running Mac OS X 10.4.11.)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Emily
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> It's mysterious to me why Fink would have you try to downgrade dbus-dev,
>>> unless you had another build going or something like that.
>>>
>>> Try just removing dbus-dev and running "fink update dbus".  If it says
>>> "no packages to install" then you're probably OK.
>>>     
>>
>> I removed dbus-dev and then ran "fink update dbus"; the result was "no
>> packages to install."
>>
>> Emily
>>
>>   
>So you should be OK, then--the current dbus and dbus-shlibs should be
>installed.  We probably had better check that they're completely installed:
>
>$ dpkg -l dbus dbus-shlibs
>Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
>|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
>uppercase=bad)
>||/ Name           Version        Description
>+++-==============-==============-==
==========================================
>ii  dbus           1.2.12-10      Message bus system for applications
>ii  dbus-shlibs    1.2.12-10      Message bus system for applications
>
>If you don't have ii by both of those, then something got confused, and
>the status code may help decide on a course of action to follow.

208 emilyjac@M5[~]: dpkg -l dbus dbus-shlibs
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  dbus           1.2.12-10      Message bus system for applications
ii  dbus-shlibs    1.2.12-10      Message bus system for applications

Emily