On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 10:55, H.Fagard wrote:
> At 9:51 -0400 25/06/03, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> >Probably the best way is by asking on the list.
> 
> OK, what about this one (that Fink is also asking when trying to 
> install Sketch):
> 
> 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
> 
> I answered (1), was this OK?
> 
It should be.

> >Here are a few things
> >I've seen (for the benefit of all newbies):
> 
> OK, noted.
> 
> >No, it's still right.  The problem is just that your system's package
> >description's are out of date--all the package manager knows is that it
> >needs the most recent version of gimp, according to what's on your
> >system.
> 
> This is a bit strange as far as gimp an gimp-dev are concerned.
> FinkCommanders says that the current "stable" version is 1.2.3-11, 
> whereas the current "binary" is 1.2.4-1. Shouldn't the stable (i.e. 
> source) version number be greater than or equal to the binary one, 
> since binaries are compiled from sources (and not always available)?
> 
Not necessarily:  there are separate methods to keep track of binary and
source packages;  if you've done the binary updates but never updated
your source descriptions then the binary version may well be later than
what's listed for stable source.  

> >I was surprised that sodipodi brought gimp in; it looks like the culprit
> >is frontline, which has a splitoff (frontline-gimp-plugin) that in turn
> >requires "gimp-dev".  You may be able to install just gimp-dev from
> >binary.
> 
> Sodipodi keeps on asking for gimp in its list of 127 packages (!) to 
> be downloaded.
> 
Did you try installing gimp-dev alone from binary? If that didn't work
there may be some other dependency that I didn't find.

> >Otherwise go with sketch.
> 
> OK, it requires far less packages (only 27), and doesn't ask for gimp.
> I got the following message:
> "WARNING: While resolving dependency "python23-socket-ssl" for 
> package "python23-2.3a2-2", package "python23-socket-ssl" was not 
> found."
> Is this OK?
> 
It's probably no big deal:  you may not have the crypto tree enabled. 
If you just pick python23-socket (without -ssl) everything should be
happy.

> Herv�
-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, visiting MIT PSFC
Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX


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