Ben Hines wrote: > > Trying to fix my gal19 "locale" problem. > > My fink list shows: > > i gal 0.11.2-1 G App Libs. > i gal-shlibs 0.19-2 GNOME application library > gal19 0.19.1-2 GNOME application library > gal19-common 0.19.1-2 GNOME application library > gal19-data 0.19-1 GNOME application library > (i) gal19-shlibs 0.19.1-2 GNOME application library > > Where is the "gal-shlibs" package? gal19-shlibs is listed as > replacing it in the gal19 info file, but the gal info file does not > have a splitoff, either in stable or unstable, so where is it coming > from?
Do you still have gal (not gal19) and gal-shlibs info files? If not, you should install gal19-shlibs. You will then probably have to remove gal and gal-shlibs by hand, see below. When looking at this, I get the impression that there exist not only virtual packages, but also ghost packages, i.e. packages that have no info files, but are still reported by fink list, fink info, dpkg -L, etc. (I should say I did "fink index", so it is not a problem of the new package database). For example, I get from "fink list gal" % fink list gal Information about 897 packages read in 1 seconds. i gal 0.19-2 GNOME application library i gal-shlibs 0.19-2 GNOME application library i gal19 0.19.1-2 GNOME application library i gal19-common 0.19.1-2 GNOME application library gal19-data 0.19-1 GNOME application library i gal19-shlibs 0.19.1-2 GNOME application library galeon 1.1.3-1 Light-weight GNOME web browser. xgalaga 2.0.34-1 Clone of the classic game of galaga I should probably say that I never installed any of this by hand; it all came from satisfying dependencies. There are several somewhat strange things about this listing: - gal19 from unstable has "Replaces: gal, gal-shlibs", but it did not remove the gal and gal-shlibs packages when it was installed. Instead it seems to have transformed them into zombies :-) - There is no gal-0.19-2.info file nor a gal-shlibs-0.19-2.info file anywhere on this machine. - Nevertheless I can list the contents and the description of gal and gal-shlibs using fink or dpkg, and they show version 0.19-2. - If I "fink remove" gal and gal-shlibs, they are gone forever; "fink reinstall" does not revive them, it suddenly detects that there are no info files available. - gal19-data is a "virtual package" provided by gal19-common, but this is not shown; instead the older gal19-data-0.19-1 package from stable is shown. So it seems the dpkg database was not updated correctly by the installation of the splitoff-style gal19 package. One has to "fink remove gal gal-shlibs" manually. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users