My recollection is that under earlier versions of XFree86, /etc/X11 was a real directory rather than a symbolic link, so you may have an older installation that uses this directory. Try removing /etc/X11 and do the install again.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > Hi, > I�m trying to use dselect to update fink and some other packages and I keep > getting the following error. I was wondering if anyone knows what�s going on. > > -Ausaf > > ************* > > Fetched 55.2MB in 17m12s (53.5kB/s) > (Reading database ... 19459 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace fink 0.9.10-1 (using > .../fink_0.9.11-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) > .... > Unpacking replacement fink ... > Setting up fink (0.9.11-1) ... > Setting up xfree86-base (4.2.0-4) ... > ERROR: /etc/X11 exists, but is not a symlink to /usr/X11R6/etc. > dpkg: error processing xfree86-base (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > xfree86-base > E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the > packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors > or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors > above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again > Press enter to continue. > ^C > installation script was interrupted. > Press <enter> to continue. > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
