Hi Charlie. Has everything you mentioned been installed by fink? Do you have TeX installed, and how was it installed? And what is your PATH?
(Diagnostic questions... trying to figure out what is up...) Best, Dave P.S. I'm copying [EMAIL PROTECTED] on this... It's usually best to conduct these discussions in public, so that others might contribute to or benefit from the solution. > Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:11:01 -0400 > From: "Charles L. Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: A problem with dpkg and install-info > > Gentlemen, > I have come upon a problem with the two aforementioned packages > which is crippling my ability to use dselect. > Here is the offending error message > > install-info: unrecognized option `--infodir=/sw/share/info' > Try `install-info --help' for a complete list of options. > dpkg: error processing glib (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > > Indeed, the man page for install-info lists the option --infodir=. > However the --help page calls this option --info-dir=. > The latter is correct. It seems that dpkg uses the former and this has > crippled my ability to maintain my software distributions. > Here's the version information, so we all know what I'm talking about: > > [216-158-63-228:/sw/share] cle% install-info --version > install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.0 > > > [216-158-63-228:/sw/share] cle% dpkg --version > Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg' package management program version 1.9.20 > (darwin-powerpc). > > Is there an environment variable on config file that I could use to get > around this so I can fix the large number of problems I now have? > Thanks, > CHarlie Epstein > _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
