Hanspeter: I suspected that the issue is I'm running Fink in 64 bit.
The output of 'fink list x264' indicates I have some uninstalled packages: Information about 9097 packages read in 0 seconds. i libx264-57-shli 0.0.2007121 Encoding H264/AVC video streams i libx264-85-shli 0.0.2010021 Encoding H264/AVC video streams i libx264-dev 0.0.2010021 Encoding H264/AVC video streams libx264gtk-dev 0.0.2007121 Encoding H264/AVC video streams libx264gtk57-sh 0.0.2007121 Encoding H264/AVC video streams x264 0.0.2007121 Encoding H264/AVC video streams Installing libx264ftk57-shlibs fails: /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/x264_0.0.20071214-4_darwin-x86_64.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/libx264gtk57-shlibs_0.0.20071214-4_darwin-x86_64.deb Selecting previously deselected package x264. (Reading database ... 108951 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking x264 (from .../x264_0.0.20071214-4_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/x264_0.0.20071214-4_darwin-x86_64.deb (--install): trying to overwrite `/sw/bin/x264', which is also in package libx264-dev /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Selecting previously deselected package libx264gtk57-shlibs. Unpacking libx264gtk57-shlibs (from .../libx264gtk57-shlibs_0.0.20071214-4_darwin-x86_64.deb) ... Setting up libx264gtk57-shlibs (0.0.20071214-4) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/x264_0.0.20071214-4_darwin-x86_64.deb ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't batch-install packages: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/x264_0.0.20071214-4_darwin-x86_64.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/libs/libx264gtk57-shlibs_0.0.20071214-4_darwin-x86_64.deb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners