On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 08:17, H.Fagard wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After successfully installing several binary packages with Fink, I
> have tried for the first time to install a package only available in
> the unstable tree ("sodipodi") from source, using FinkCommander.
>
> I was first a bit puzzled by fink asking me to choose between two
> libs to satisfy a dependency, e.g.:
>
> "fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The
> candidates:
>
> (1) freetype2-shlibs: TrueType font rendering library, version
> 2, shared libs
> (2) freetype2-hinting-shlibs: TrueType font rendering library,
> version 2, shared libs"f
>
> this happened a couple of times, so as I don't know which one to
> choose I accepted the default response, except for:
>
Sometimes you don't want to do this, however: the order given is
alphabetical, and you can wind up with a bad mixture of packages if you
always pick [1]
> "fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The
> candidates:
>
> (1) ghostscript: Interpreter for PostScript and PDF
> (2) ghostscript6: Interpreter for PostScript and PDF, v6.01
> (3) system-ghostscript6: Placeholder package for manually
> installed ghostscript 6.01
> (4) system-ghostscript8: Placeholder package for manually
> installed ghostscript 8.00"
>
> where I replied (2).
>
> Were these the correct answers?
>
If you don't have ghostcript installed from some other source than Fink,
either (1) or (2) is fine.
> Then the downloads began, until after one hour or so I got this:
>
> curl -f -L -s -S -O ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.2/v1.2.3/gimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2
> curl: (22) The requested file was not found
> ### execution of curl failed, exit code 22
> Downloading the file "gimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2" failed.
>
> (1) Give up
> (2) Retry the same mirror
> (3) Retry another mirror from your country
> (4) Retry another mirror
> (5) Retry using next mirror set "master"
>
> How do you want to proceed? [3]
>
> I accepted the default response, got the same problem, then tried
> (4), no way, so I decided to give up, and the installation process
> stopped.
Normally I'd say to try [5], but in this case the problem was that you
were downloading an old version of gimp: 1.2.4 is the current version
on the download sites, and is the current version for Fink binary,
stable source and unstable source. I'd say to do a "fink
selfupdate-cvs" (Source->Selfupdate-CVS), but CVS access has been
difficult recently. You can install it as a binary, too (make sure to
use "Binary->Update descriptions" and "Binary->Dist-upgrade packages").
> My questions:
> - is this package (gimp-1.2.3.tar.bz2) the whole package for "The
> GIMP"? I'm surprised that Sodipodi requires The GIMP to be installed.
It is the whole package. The dependency must be buried somewhere: it's
not in sodipodi itself.
> - how can I clean my /sw directory from all previoulsy downloaded
> dependencies, that are useless if I can't manage to download this one?
Nothing should be installed: all you should have is tarballs in
/sw/src.
> - how can I successfully install Sodipodi?
>
Install gimp-1.2.4-1 as I said earlier and keep trying.
> Thanks in advance and best regards,
>
> Herv�
>
>
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