So I'm having a very similar problem to what Bob Metz just had, but with a different package, and have a simple question along the way.
Problem: installed Max OS X 10.6, then XCode (in order to get `gcc`), then fink, FinkCommander, and a few packages. Then tried to install the "xmlstarlet" package (I'm not sure how anyone lives without it :-), and got a conflict between libgettext8-dev and libgettext3-dev: | While trying to install: | libgettext3-dev-0.14.5-2 | | The following inconsistencies found: | libgettext8-dev conflicts with libgettext3-dev, but libgettext3-dev | is installed | | Trying to resolve dependencies... | Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies! | | Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be | able to fix things by running: | | fink scanpackages | sudo apt-get update | sudo apt-get install libgettext3-dev=0.14.5-2 So I ran `fink scanpackages` and `apt-get update` without trouble. When I ran `apt-get install libgettext3-dev=0.14.5-2`, fink told me it had to remove libgettext8-dev in order to do so: | Reading Package Lists... Done | Building Dependency Tree... Done | The following packages will be REMOVED: | libgettext8-dev | The following NEW packages will be installed: | libgettext3-dev | 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not | upgraded. | Need to get 0B/131kB of archives. After unpacking 238kB will be used. | Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n | Abort. So I wanted to know why libgettext8-dev was on my system in the first place -- what package had I installed that depended on this? So I'd like to ask the question "what depends on libgettext8-dev". Kind of a `fink show-deps` in reverse, as it were. Once I know what depends on libgettext8-dev, I can either proceed (and try to follow the previous portion of this thread to figure out how to fix this); or remove those packages first and proceed; or (if they are important packages and removing libgettext8-dev would break them), ask what to do here. Thanks in advance. -- Syd Bauman, EMT-Paramedic Senior XML Programmer/Analyst Brown University Women Writers Project [email protected] 401-863-3835 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
