I've read Fun with Fink. Have since uninstalled and reinstalled xfree86 twice. I only succeeded when installing (just like I succeeded last time) by installing the complete installer from GNU MAC.
Now, however, after numerous attempts, I am unable to add Any packages. Commander sites a problem with deb.pkg, and below is what I get from Termenal and Xterm. And yes, I Do have apples xll installed, by way of the custom feature, as written in Fun With Fink. And it made no difference that I made myself root via netinfo. apt-get -f install was the result of a previous attempt to instal a package. Is if possible for a machine to reject software? :-/ Terminal: [blueDog:~] greghyde% apt-get -f install E: Could not open lock file /sw/var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/sw/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? [blueDog:~] greghyde% sudo apt-get -f install Password: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: system-xfree86 The following NEW packages will be installed: system-xfree86 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 15 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/3044B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 4080 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking system-xfree86 (from .../system-xfree86_4.2-11_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... - found apple library - found /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm - found /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb - found /usr/X11R6/bin/rman - found /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.dylib - found /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.dylib - found /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.dylib - found /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h - Apple X11 userland is missing ** ERROR! ** It appears you have a partially-installed version of the Apple X11 release. To use Apple's X11 with Fink, you must download both the main X11 installer, as well as the SDK (there are actually 2 separate downloads for the Apple X11 release). Please go to http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/ and download and install the missing files, and re-attempt your install of system-xfree86. dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/system-xfree86_4.2-11_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/system-xfree86_4.2-11_darwin-powerpc.deb E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Xterm: (cd .libs && rm -f libpopt.la && ln -s ../libpopt.la libpopt.la) source='test1.c' object='test1.o' libtool=no \ depfile='.deps/test1.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/test1.TPo' \ depmode=gcc /bin/sh ./depcomp \ gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I. -I. -I/sw/include -Wall -g -O2 -c `test -f 'test1.c' || echo './'`test1.c /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc -Wall -g -O2 -lintl -L/sw/lib -o test1 -all-static test1.o libpopt.la libtool: link: warning: complete static linking is impossible in this configuration gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o test1 test1.o -L/sw/lib ./.libs/libpopt.a /sw/lib/libintl.a -liconv ld: table of contents for archive: /sw/lib/libintl.a is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it) make[2]: *** [test1] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 ### execution of make failed, exit code 2 Failed: compiling popt-1.7-1 failed On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 22:48:06 -0500, Scot Johnson wrote: > Greg wrote: > | Okay, I've slowd down. I've studied. I've read. And, most importantly, > | I've decompressed. I think I'm ready to seek guidance once again, at a > | time when my knowledge is not so impaired: > | > | Based on the helpful links that were referred to me, I've tried > | installing xDarwin via the gnumac and xonx installers and via fink and > | followed instructions to by adding strings of text to certain files. > | I've tried launching in by double-clicking on the X, and from the > | command line, and in one shape or an other, the response has been the > | same. It seems that no matter what, X is not being mapped correctly and > | is not access necessary dependancies. Last night, I couldn't even > | remove it via fink. > | > | Below is the litany of output that I've compiled from console, the > | terminal, and text edit. somewhere in there, I sense, is a pattern that > | will pull it all together: > |all of the output snipped< > > I'm coming in on the middle of this and someone may have already given > you this advice but I would highly recommend you read Phil Lavigna's > "Fun With Fink" Document. The copy I have is dated February. It's > excellent. You should be able to find it with Google. > > Given all your trouble, you may want to remove Fink and X and start > over. Open your Terminal.app and use: > > sudo rm -rf /sw > Return > > sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /etc/X11 > Return > > sudo rm -rf /Applications/XDarwin.app > Return > > then: > rm .xinitrc .cshrc > Return > > The rm = remove and the -r and -f means recursive and forced. > > Once you have this accomplished you can start a brand new Fink > installation from scratch. So you know, the first command gets rid of > fink, the 2nd and third commands get rid of your X server, and the final > command gets rid of your configuration files for X and TCSH respectively. > > If you then start your new installation following "Fun With Fink" you > should have no problems. It's excellent and quite detailed on getting > started. > > Hope you find this helpful. I'm pretty new to this myself. I have > followed the directions above and it's worked for me. > > Oh one last thing. Note the space between X11R6 and /etc. Need to ensure > that there's a space there otherwise you won't remove anything...you're > actually removing 2 different directories recursively. > - -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! 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