On Mar 14, 2004, at 4:36 PM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
I am trying to install gimp from fink commander's "Binary" menu. I get this error:
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Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
E: The package xfree86 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
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I am using Apple's X11 package and the "placeholder" virtual packages I have read about on the fink site appear do be in place. What else do I need to do?
Thanks, ...ROMeyn -- signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/prescor/signat-url.htm
Try out Martin Costabel's debug script (quoting a message that he posted on -devel)--it needs to be run in a terminal:
it is...available here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/costabel/fink-x11-debug To use it, save it anywhere and - either make it executable and run it as "./fink-x11-debug" - or run it as "perl fink-x11-debug
-- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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