On 4/25/06, Sarah Stockwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > This is on a machine running OS X 10.4. The fink installation is in > a nonstandard directory due to some constraints of the (shared) > system: /Users/myusername/sw. > > I need to install various unstable packages, so after my successful > install of fink, I added the unstable trees to my fink.conf and ran > fink selfupdate to get the new package list. Of course, that also > updates fink to the unstable version of itself and its dependencies > -- not ideal for my purposes, but I don't see how to update the > package list to include unstable things other than with selfupdate, > which updates fink as well. (The FAQ CVS solution would require me > to move around the relevant files for all of the many unstable > packages and dependencies I need, correct? I'd rather avoid that if > possible). The fink update wanted to update a few dependencies, > including gettext, where it failed. I've tried the following: > --running fink selfupdate again > --fink fetch gettext (worked fine), fink rebuild gettext (worked > fine), fink install gettext (fails -- error message below). > > Any ideas would be very welcome. Error message notwithstanding, I > don't think it's a problem with dpkg-lockwait; it complains about > that script because the exec within the script (of dpkg -i etc.) > failed, so the script died. > > $ fink install gettext > Information about 5710 packages read in 3 seconds. > The following package will be installed or updated: > gettext > /Users/srs56/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i > /Users/srs56/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/gettext_0.10.40-24_darwin-powerpc.deb > (Reading database ... 4144 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace gettext 0.10.40-24 (using > .../gettext_0.10.40-24_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement gettext ... > ### execution of /Users/srs56/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 10 > Failed: can't install package gettext-0.10.40-24 > > Thanks for your help, > > --Sarah Stockwell > > >
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