On Nov 10, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Charles Wallace wrote:
When I try to install ethereal, fink tells me that it has to install this thing called xfree first. I assumed it was some necessary package to make ethereal work, so I said "Yes" when it asked to install. However, during installation, xfree fails again and again at the same point (which is a pain, because it takes forever to get to this point as it is). I have included several terminal lines that appear before the failure point so that someone might understand what is going wrong. I don't know anything about this package that insists it be installed, and thus I don't know how to fix the problem. Please help.
Here are the lines:
/bin/rm -rf /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2
/bin/mkdir -p /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2/sw
/bin/mkdir -p /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2/DEBIAN
/usr/bin/install -d -m 755 /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib
/bin/mv /sw/src/root-xfree86-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib/libAppleWM.*.dylib /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib/
/usr/bin/install -d -m 755 /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib
/bin/mv /sw/src/root-xfree86-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib/libFS.*.dylib /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib/
/usr/bin/install -d -m 755 /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib
/bin/mv /sw/src/root-xfree86-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL*.*.dylib /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib/
mv: rename /sw/src/root-xfree86-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL*.*.dylib to /sw/src/root-xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL*.*.dylib: No such file or directory
### execution of /bin/mv failed, exit code 1
Failed: installing xfree86-shlibs-4.3.99.16-2 failed
[Eidolon:~] cmwallac%
Thank you for any assistance.
Charles Wallace
It is indeed a necessary package. You have 3 options:
1) The error you quoted isn't the real one--something happened earlier in the build:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#mv-failed
You could try to figure out what the error is.
2) If you don't care, but just want to install xfree86 you can use the binary method:
sudo apt-get install xfree86
That will download a pre-built XFree86 package which is ready to go.
3) You can dispense with XFree86 altogether and install Apple's X11 (X11User.pkg from Disk 3 of your Panther CDs) and the X11SDK (from your XCode CD).
If you're running Jaguar, then only 1 and 2 are available to you. -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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