At 5:44 PM -0500 3/14/04, Alexander Hansen scribbled:
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
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Try out Martin Costabel's debug script (quoting a message that he
posted on -devel)--it needs to be run in a terminal:
OK, groovy. But I'm not sure what it's telling me!
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OS X version: 10.3.2
Darwin version: 7.2.0
fink package manager version: 0.19.1
Fink distribution version: 0.6.2.cvs
Fink updated from: rsync
Checking fink-installed xfree86 packages:
None
X11 version installed: 4.3
Found X server Xquartz
system-xfree86-shlibs provides 'x11-shlibs'
system-xfree86 provides 'xserver', 'x11'
Found header X11/Xlib.h: system-xfree86-dev provides 'x11-dev'
Found library libGL.1.dylib:
system-xfree86-shlibs provides 'libgl-shlibs' and
system-xfree86 provides 'libgl'
Found headers GL/gl.h: system-xfree86-dev provides 'libgl-dev'
Found library libXft.1.dylib: system-xfree86-shlibs provides 'xft1-shlibs'
Found libXft.dylib as symlink to libXft.2* and header X11/Xft/Xft.h:
system-xfree86-dev provides 'xft2-dev' and
system-xfree86 provides 'xft2'
Found library libXft.2.dylib: system-xfree86-shlibs provides 'xft2-shlibs'
Found libfontconfig.dylib as symlink to libfontconfig.1*
and header fontconfig/fontconfig.h:
system-xfree86-dev provides 'fontconfig1-dev' and
system-xfree86 provides 'fontconfig1'
Found library libfontconfig.1.dylib:
system-xfree86-shlibs provides 'fontconfig1-shlibs'
Found binary rman: system-xfree86 provides 'rman'
Found threaded version of libXt.6.dylib:
system-xfree86-shlibs provides 'xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs' and
system-xfree86 may provide 'xfree86-base-threaded'
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