Hi Dave,

On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 05:23  AM, David R. Morrison wrote:

Dear Fink folks,

Yesterday saw a major new release of teTeX, and there are new Fink packages
for this release in the unstable tree. Users should be aware that upgrading
to these new packages will require the download of 80 MB of source files,
and substantial compiling time.

If you are upgrading from a previous teTeX installation on Fink, you will
most likely need to reinstall one of the packages in the middle of the
upgrade. There is a warning message which tells you what to do, when
this is necessary.
I tried to install the new tetex. The following tex packages have been installed:

status name installed unstable
outdated tetex-base 1.0-13 2.0-1
outdated tetex-macosx 20010808-7 20010808-8
outdated tetex-texmf 1.0.2-6 2.0-1
current bundle-tetex 20010808-7 20010808-7

I started with 'fink install tetex'. The compilation runs fine until the package tetex-texmf has to be installed:

Writing control file...
dpkg-deb -b root-tetex-texmf-2.0-1 /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text
dpkg-deb: building package `tetex-texmf' in `/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex- texmf_2.0-1_darwin-powerpc.deb'.
ln -sf /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex- texmf_2.0-1_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/debs/
rm -rf /sw/src/root-tetex-texmf-2.0-1
dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex- texmf_2.0-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: considering removing carlisle in favour of tetex-texmf ...
dpkg: yes, will remove carlisle in favour of tetex-texmf.
dpkg: regarding .../tetex-texmf_2.0-1_darwin-powerpc.deb containing tetex-texmf:
tetex-texmf conflicts with natbib
natbib (version 7.0a-4) is installed.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex- texmf_2.0-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing tetex-texmf
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/tetex- texmf_2.0-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package tetex-texmf-2.0-1

I tried to remove carlisle and natbib manually. However there are more dependencies:

$ fink remove carlisle
sudo /sw/bin/fink remove carlisle
Password:
Information about 2137 packages read in 1 seconds.

dpkg --remove carlisle
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of carlisle:
pdfscreen depends on carlisle.
dpkg: error processing carlisle (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
carlisle
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't remove package carlisle

$ fink remove natbib
sudo /sw/bin/fink remove natbib
Information about 2137 packages read in 1 seconds.

dpkg --remove natbib
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of natbib:
revtex depends on natbib.
dpkg: error processing natbib (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
natbib
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't remove package natbib

How to proceed from here?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Remi

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