On Mar 15, 2004, at 11:11 PM, Brett Duncan wrote:
At 9:20 PM -0500 15/3/04, Alexander Hansen wrote:I'd say your best bet is to:
1) Clear out Apple's X11--but since you have a working setup according to the presence of the virtual packages, don't delete it but rename it:
sudo mv /etc/X11 /etc/X11.bak sudo mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6.bak
2) clear out the stray packages:
dpkg --purge --force-depends xfree86 system-xfree86 system-xfree86-42 system-xfree86-43
3) Put Apple's X11 back:
sudo mv /etc/X11.bak /etc/X11 sudo mv /usr/X11R6.bak /usr/X11R6
(or use the Installer files, if you prefer)
4) Make sure you have system-xfree86, system-xfree86-shlibs and system-xfree86-dev
I attempted to clear out the packages, and got...
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dpkg: error processing xfree86 (--purge):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86 which isn't installed.
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86-42 which isn't installed.
dpkg: error processing system-xfree86-43 (--purge):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
xfree86
system-xfree86-43
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Okay, reinstall it says, so fire up FinkCommander...
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Failed: can't build system-xfree86-43-4.3-3 because no package description is available
This package doesn't exist any more, so you can't reinstall it.
Try
sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends,remove-reinstreq system-xfree86-43
where remove-reinstreq overrides the error you're getting. This looks odd, but it's the syntax that dpkg wants, comma and all.
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Try fink directly - same message.
So... I can't remove the offending packages unless I reinstall them first, but I can't reinstall them. Why can't I see the package descriptions?
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