[Zim]

Tearing my hair out trying to do a clean (re)install of Fink. (mv'd my /sw to /swold)

Trying to install imagemagick, it gets to the part about an existing X11 install and says

You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and/or /etc/X11.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86 again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you want
to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools
instead to make this known to Fink's package system.

So I tried

>sudo fink install system-xfree86
Password:
Information about 1122 packages read in 1 seconds.
No packages to install.
>sudo fink install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools
Information about 1122 packages read in 1 seconds.
Failed: no package found for specification 'resp.'!

Every time I try the 'Update' in 'sudo dselect' I get

>sudo dselect
Err file: local/main Packages
File not found
Ign file: local/main Release
Err file: stable/main Packages
File not found
Ign file: stable/main Release
Err file: stable/crypto Packages
File not found
Ign file: stable/crypto Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Release
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

update available list script returned error exit status 1.
Press <enter> to continue.

which doesn't give me warm and fuzzies, not to mention that I can't seem to find any Uninstalled packages in deselect (so how do you use that to add new pkgs? I have always done
'sudo fink install XYZ')

10.3.1(?) will all updates and dev tools installed.

So far I've been able to get mutt and wget re-installed, but nothing with X11 dependencies (emacs, Imagemagick, etc).

Thanks for any help,
Mike

[justinkim]

Try updating fink through the command line with "sudo fink selfupdate" then check to see if system-xfree86 appears in "fink list".

I haven't had a lot of luck with dselect in Panther. However, installing from the command line using either fink or apt-get seems to work well.

[Zim]

Originally posted by justinkim:
Try updating fink through the command line with "sudo fink selfupdate" then check to see if system-xfree86 appears in "fink list".

I haven't had a lot of luck with dselect in Panther. However, installing from the command line using either fink or apt-get seems to work well.

I did the selfupdate, then a fink list which shows

i system-xfree86 2:4.3-1 [placeholder for user installed x11]

the 'i' would seem to indicate that it thinks its already installed?

Yet when I do 'sudo fink install emacs21' it says

Information about 1122 packages read in 1 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
emacs21
The following additional package will be installed:
xfree86
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
curl -f -L -O http://distfiles.opendarwin.org/emacs-21.2.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed
100 19.3M 100 19.3M 0 0 288k 0 0:01:08 0:01:08 0:00:00 276k
curl -f -L -O http://distfiles.opendarwin.org/leim-21.2.tar.gz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed
100 3214k 100 3214k 0 0 316k 0 0:00:10 0:00:10 0:00:00 327k
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.3.0-14_darwin-powerpc.deb
(Reading database ... 4862 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xfree86 (from .../xfree86_4.3.0-14_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...

You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and/or /etc/X11.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86 again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you want
to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools
instead to make this known to Fink's package system.

Press Return to continue.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.3.0-14_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.3.0-14_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package xfree86-4.3.0-14

so it seems to think the placeholder is installed, but refuses to use it, and/or I'm not understanding how I'm supposed to tell Fink to use it.

Mike

[justinkim]

I did have your problem just after upgrading to Panther, but re-installing fink from source and selfupdating seemed to fix my problem.

Before going to the trouble of reinstalling, maybe your could try uninstalling, then re-installing the placeholder.

[Zim]

Eureka...

Not only do you need to have installed:

- Apple X11
- Dev tools

but you need to go back and install the X11 SDK which does not appear to be installed by default (even when installing the other Dev tools).

The Fink complain about xfree86 has gone away, and emacs21 is compiling (lordee knows how long that will take, but progress is progress).

Thanks!
Mike

[mcsjgs]

As a reference try here:

Running Fink In Panther

[gomariners]

Originally posted by Zim:
Eureka...

Not only do you need to have installed:

- Apple X11
- Dev tools

but you need to go back and install the X11 SDK which does not appear to be installed by default (even when installing the other Dev tools).

The Fink complain about xfree86 has gone away, and emacs21 is compiling (lordee knows how long that will take, but progress is progress).

Thanks!
Mike

This is what I did. Then I found I needed to reinstall X11 as fink screwed something up. Now everything's fine.