Hello: I am new to fink and fairly new to linux. I just tried to install octave and I get the following errors:
dfl% fink install octave sudo /sw/bin/fink install octave Reading package info... Information about 253 packages read in 2 seconds. WARNING: While resolving dependency "tetex-base" for package "gnuplot-3.7.1-4", package "tetex-base" was not found. Failed: Can't resolve dependency "tetex-base" for package "gnuplot-3.7.1-4" (no matching packages/versions found) So I did the following: dfl% sudo apt-get install tetex-macosx Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting system-tetex instead of tetex-macosx The following NEW packages will be installed: system-tetex 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2428B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. (Reading database ... 17592 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking system-tetex (from .../system-tetex_20010808-7_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... You don't a valid teTeX installation; you were missing /usr/local/teTeX/lib/libkpathsea.a /usr/local/teTeX/include/kpathsea/tex-file.h /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf Install the tetex-texmf and tetex-base packages instead, or install teTeX manually from http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html and then retry installing the system-tetex package. dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/system-tetex_20010808-7_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/system-tetex_20010808-7_darwin-powerpc.deb E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Hmm, okay so now I do a manual install of tetex, since tetex-texmf and tetex-base wouldn't install either... After this manual installation I do: [localhost:~] dfl% sudo apt-get install system-tetex Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, system-tetex is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up system-tetex (20010808-7) ... /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/system-tetex.postinst: command not found: ranlib [6] dpkg: error processing system-tetex (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: system-tetex E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) command ranlib not found. I noticed also that make doesn't work either :-? Also I installed bash as my default shell, and it doesn't have fink in the path, so I run csh when I want to use fink. But even something is screwy with my bash installation since it doesn't run my ~/.bashrc unless I invoke bash manually rather than just open a terminal window. I'd appreciate it if anyone can give me some insight on these problems! Thanks, David _/^\_/^\_/^\_/^\_/^\ Science is but a perversion of itself unless David Lowenfels it has as its ultimate goal the betterment Vibrational Engineer of humanity. -- Nikola Tesla ^\_/^\_/^\_/^\_/^\_/^ http://www.mit.edu/~dfl/ _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
