Re: [Fink-beginners] help with apt-get and gnome

[lj Palmer]

try typing the following command before you start in a window.
source /sw/bin/init.sh
A "program" tends not to run/execute unless its in your PATH ( /sw/bin 
needs to be in the list), unless you put a directory spec.
Your working directory is usually not in your PATH for security 
reasons. So "cd" to /sw/bin" doesn't help.  The above command should 
fix your PATH.

If you want to execute something in your working directory type
./apt-get
as an example.
BTW.
 I put the following in my ~/.xinitrc file to start Gnome automatically 
when start X11.

#!/bin/sh
quartz-wm --only-proxy &
source /sw/bin/init.sh
exec /sw/bin/gnome-session
exec sawfish &
..lj
On Jul 26, 2004, at 19:04, Erez Yoeli wrote:
Hi,
I recently installed fink and the gnome packages.  I dowloaded all the 
the binaries using the graphical installer, and now, I'm not sure what 
to do.  I went into fink's sw/bin folder and tried running apt-get (it 
shows up when I type 'ls') but got a 'command not found' error.  I 
also tried running 'gdm', but got a similar error.  Anyone have any 
idea what I did wrong?  Thanks,

erez

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[Fink-beginners] New port for conglomerate in 10.3 unstable

[Michèle Garoche]

From the info file:
Conglomerate aims to be a wyziwyg editor for XML/DocBook
 documents with source view and export capabilities.
Please try it and report any bugs or success at the address you'll find 
issuing a:

fink info conglomerate
Michèle


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[Fink-beginners] help with apt-get and gnome

[Erez Yoeli]

Hi,
I recently installed fink and the gnome packages.  I dowloaded all the 
the binaries using the graphical installer, and now, I'm not sure what 
to do.  I went into fink's sw/bin folder and tried running apt-get (it 
shows up when I type 'ls') but got a 'command not found' error.  I also 
tried running 'gdm', but got a similar error.  Anyone have any idea 
what I did wrong?  Thanks,

erez

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Re: [Fink-beginners] gnome 2.7.3

[Alexander K. Hansen]

You'd have to do all of the porting yourself (not recommended if you're 
new to Unix), because Fink currently only supports GNOME-2.6.2.

On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Mick Brown wrote:
Hi
I am completely new to fink and unix. I have just installed fink 0.7 
and updated fink and all packages on a mac running osx panther (10.3) 
with x11 installed. I wish to install the latest version of the gnome 
desktop 2.7.3. How do I go about this in simple terms please?

Mick
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Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

[Martin Costabel]

david bonde wrote:
[]
 i   system-xfree86-dev2:4.3-2  [placeholder for user 
installed x11 development tools]
 i   system-xfree86-sh...  2:4.3-2  [placeholder for user 
installed x11 shared libraries]

Isn't that odd if I don't have the SDK installed?
Yes, Alex found it odd, too. You could run fink-virtual-pkgs and then 
look at the paragraph talking about system-xfree86-dev, in particular 
the "provides" line. Mine says

provides: x11-dev, libgl-dev, xft2-dev, fontconfig1-dev
Yours certainly doesn't say "x11-dev", but it would be interesting to 
see which one of the others is there.

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Re: [Fink-beginners] Using apt creates errors

[Martin Costabel]

Ben Herbert wrote:
[]
deb file:/xxx/xxx/xxx/mirror/fink/10.3 stable main crypto
[]
Failed to fetch 
file:/xxx/xxx/xxx/mirror/fink/10.3/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages  
File not found

As you can see, it add 'dists' into the path.  I can't get apt-get to 
not add 'dists' into the path.
Yes, that's what it does. You need to adapt your file layout so that it 
takes this into account. On a standard Fink system, in /sw/fink you have 
dists as a symlink to 10.3 (or to 10.2-gcc3.3 if you are on OSX 10.2), 
that is, /sw/fink/dists is the same as /sw/fink/10.3. The sources.list 
line then has

deb file:/sw/fink stable main crypto
If you really want to keep both your sources.list line and your file 
layout, make an additional symlink inside fink/10.3 so that 10.3/dists 
and 10.3 become identical:

  sudo ln -s . xxx/mirror/fink/10.3/dists
Don't forget to run fink scanpackages afterwards.
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Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

[david bonde]

At 20.12 +0200 04-07-26, Martin Costabel wrote/04-07-26, 20.12 +0200 
skrev Martin Costabel

Last time we had such a persistent case, there was still some file 
from the X11SDK.pkg missing, although this package had been 
reinstalled twice. The third time it worked.

The missing file was /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h. Do you have this 
file, David?
You were more than right, for some reason I didn't have X11 SDk 
installed. Should I have realized that from the error messages I got 
before?

Before I installed the SDK I run:
% fink list -i system-xfree86
Information about 1722 packages read in 11 seconds.
 i   system-xfree862:4.3-2  [placeholder for user 
installed x11]
 i   system-xfree86-dev2:4.3-2  [placeholder for user 
installed x11 development tools]
 i   system-xfree86-sh...  2:4.3-2  [placeholder for user 
installed x11 shared libraries]

Isn't that odd if I don't have the SDK installed?
David
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Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

[david bonde]

At 13.09 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 13.09 
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen

Run "fink list -i system-xfree86".  I could have sworn you posted an 
earlier message showing that you had "system-xfree86-dev".
% fink list -i system-xfree86
Information about 1722 packages read in 11 seconds.
 i   system-xfree862:4.3-2  [placeholder for user 
installed x11]
 i   system-xfree86-dev2:4.3-2  [placeholder for user 
installed x11 development tools]
 i   system-xfree86-sh...  2:4.3-2  [placeholder for user 
installed x11 shared libraries]

I think you are right...
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A: Top-posting.
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[Fink-beginners] Using apt creates errors

[Ben Herbert]

Hello,
I am running fink version 0.7.0 on a Mac OS X version 10.3.4 and darwin 
kernel 7.4.0.  I have rsync'd a fink repository on our file space.  I 
would like to use apt-get to install binaries on our Mac systems.  I 
edit /sw/etc/apt/sources.list to the necessary path:

deb file:/xxx/xxx/xxx/mirror/fink/10.3 stable main crypto
I run 'apt-get update' and get an error saying it can't find certain files:
Err file: stable/main Packages
 File not found
Ign file: stable/main Release
Err file: stable/crypto Packages
 File not found
Ign file: stable/crypto Release
Failed to fetch 
file:/xxx/xxx/xxx/mirror/fink/10.3/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages  
File not found

As you can see, it add 'dists' into the path.  I can't get apt-get to 
not add 'dists' into the path.

Has anybody seen or dealt with this problem.  Thanks for any information.
Ben
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[Fink-beginners] gnome 2.7.3

[Mick Brown]

Hi
I am completely new to fink and unix. I have just installed fink 0.7 
and updated fink and all packages on a mac running osx panther (10.3) 
with x11 installed. I wish to install the latest version of the gnome 
desktop 2.7.3. How do I go about this in simple terms please?

Mick
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Re: [Fink-beginners] Final repost: Problems updating pango1-dev

[Martin Costabel]

Phil Thomson wrote:
[]
otlbuffer.c:32: warning: implicit declaration of function 
`FT_REALLOC_ARRAY'
This symbol is defined in 
/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/freetype/internal/ftmemory.h, at least in 
versions from xfree86-4.3.0 or more recent. Your error shows that you 
have an old version of this file, either at the place I gave or at 
/usr/local/include/freetype/internal/ftmemory.h. Have a look at this 
file and its time stamp. Its size should be 15011 bytes, and the 
copyright notice on line 7 should mention at least the year 2002, maybe 
2004. The old version has size 14042 bytes, and the copyright notice is 
"Copyright 1996-2001".

In any case, the command
  grep FT_REALLOC_ARRAY -R /usr/X11R6/include
should show you
/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/freetype/internal/ftmemory.h:#define 
FT_REALLOC_ARRAY( _pointer_, _old_, _new_, _type_ ) \

If it doesn't, reinstall X11SDK.pkg. If it does, then look into 
/usr/local/include.

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Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

[Martin Costabel]

Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:40 PM, david bonde wrote:
At 12.03 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 12.03 
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen

And you do have system-xfree86-dev.  This is mysterious to me.

I do? How can I see that?
Can I do something to save my fink-installation or should I remove the 
whole /sw directory?
Last time we had such a persistent case, there was still some file from 
the X11SDK.pkg missing, although this package had been reinstalled 
twice. The third time it worked.

The missing file was /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h. Do you have this 
file, David?

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Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

[Alexander K. Hansen]

On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:40 PM, david bonde wrote:
At 12.03 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 12.03 
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen

And you do have system-xfree86-dev.  This is mysterious to me.
I do? How can I see that?
Can I do something to save my fink-installation or should I remove the 
whole /sw directory?

David
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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Run "fink list -i system-xfree86".  I could have sworn you posted an 
earlier message showing that you had "system-xfree86-dev".

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Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

[Alexander K. Hansen]

On Jul 26, 2004, at 11:45 AM, david bonde wrote:
At 08.26 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 08.26  
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen

% dpkg -l "*xfree86*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|  
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half- 
installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:  
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name   Version Description
+++-==- 
==- 
= 
===
un  system-xfree86  (no description  
available)
in  xfree864.3.99.16-2 (no  
description available)
in  xfree86-base(no description  
available)
in  xfree86-base-shlibs (no description  
available)
pn  xfree86-base-threaded   (no description  
available)
pn  xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs(no description  
available)
un  xfree86-rootless(no description  
available)
un  xfree86-rootless-shlibs (no description  
available)
un  xfree86-rootless-threaded   (no description  
available)
un  xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs(no description  
available)
in  xfree86-shlibs 4.3.99.16-2 (no  
description available)

Now?
Ah--you don't have any stray packages installed, which is good, but  
xfree86 and xfree86-shlibs are now marked to be installed.  The  
easiest way to do this is to use the dselect command ("sudo dselect"  
actually) to change the status.
I tried dselect. This is how the x11-section looked:
qqq Available Unclassified packages in section x11-system  
qqq
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86  4.3.99.16-2 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11  
implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X
  ** ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86  
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  ** ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86  
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  __ ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86  
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  __ ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86  
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86-shli 4.3.99.16-2 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11  
implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X

and now it looks like this:
qqq Available packages (not currently installed) qqq
qqq Available Unclassified packages in section x11-system  
qqq
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86  4.3.99.16-2 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11  
implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X   -- ?   x11-syst  
xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 libraries, utilities,  
clients and data
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86  
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  __ ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86  
libraries, utilities, clients and data__ ?   x11-syst  
xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 libraries, utilities,  
clients and data-- ?   x11-syst xfree86-shli 4.3.99.16-2  
4.3.99.16-2 Free X11 implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X

However:
% fink install ghostscript
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink  install ghostscript
Information about 1722 packages read in 3 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
 ghostscript
The following 2 additional packages will be installed:
 xfree86 xfree86-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg -i  
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/ 
xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb  
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86- 
shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
(Reading database ... 10225 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xfree86 (from .../xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
WARNING: if you compile X11 applications against this XFree86 release,
you will *not* be able to run them if you decide to revert to Apple's
X11 provided with Panther.

You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and/or /etc/X11.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86 again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you want
to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp.  
system-xtools
instead to make this known to Fink's package system.

Press Return to continue.
dpkg: error processing  
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/ 
xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Unpacking xfree86-shlibs (from  
.../xfree86-shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...

You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6/lib.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86-shlibs again. (The package won't be recompiled.)
Press Return to continue.
dpkg: error processing  
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerp

Re: [Fink-beginners] How to get help on Fink

[Alexander K. Hansen]

On Jul 26, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Phil Thomson wrote:
Hi all,
I just want to say that I've been having a lot of trouble getting help 
with fink on this list. I know this is probably due to limited 
resources on the part of the people here who seem to answer most of 
the questions (Thank you, Alexander and Martin!), so I'm very 
understanding, and not critical at all, but I need some help that I'm 
finding it hard to get on this list.

I'm wondering if there is another place I can go to get help with 
fink. I've been having a devil of a time trying to update pango, 
apparently because of some issues with freetype headers. I appreciate 
the help that I have received here in this regard, but I've often had 
to repost my questions up to three times before getting an answer, and 
I don't feel like I'm doing much to contribute to the signal-to-noise 
ratio when I do that. If someone can refer me to another place to go 
to get support for this and other fink questions, I would be much 
obliged.

TIA.
P

The mailing lists are really the best place to go--don't worry about 
the S/N ratio.  Also, because of the high traffic, posts get buried 
sometimes.

The issue here may be that you're the first poster with this problem, 
so nobody's got a solution that's quick and ready.

Now about the freetype problem:  when you reinstalled Apple's X11 
(apropos your last post), did you clear out /usr/X11R6 completely?

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Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

[david bonde]

At 08.26 -0400 04-07-26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-26, 08.26 
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen

% dpkg -l "*xfree86*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name   Version Description
+++-==-==-
un  system-xfree86  (no description available)
in  xfree864.3.99.16-2 (no 
description available)
in  xfree86-base(no description available)
in  xfree86-base-shlibs (no description available)
pn  xfree86-base-threaded   (no description available)
pn  xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs(no description available)
un  xfree86-rootless(no description available)
un  xfree86-rootless-shlibs (no description available)
un  xfree86-rootless-threaded   (no description available)
un  xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs(no description available)
in  xfree86-shlibs 4.3.99.16-2 (no 
description available)

Now?
Ah--you don't have any stray packages installed, which is good, but 
xfree86 and xfree86-shlibs are now marked to be installed.  The 
easiest way to do this is to use the dselect command ("sudo dselect" 
actually) to change the status.
I tried dselect. This is how the x11-section looked:
qqq Available Unclassified packages in section x11-system qqq
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86  4.3.99.16-2 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11 
implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X
  ** ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  ** ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  __ ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  __ ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86-shli 4.3.99.16-2 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11 
implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X

and now it looks like this:
qqq Available packages (not currently installed) qqq
qqq Available Unclassified packages in section x11-system qqq
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86  4.3.99.16-2 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11 
implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X 
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 
libraries, utilities, clients and data
  __ ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 
libraries, utilities, clients and data  
  __ ?   x11-syst xfree86-base   4.2.1.1-16  XFree86 
libraries, utilities, clients and data  
  -- ?   x11-syst xfree86-shli 4.3.99.16-2 4.3.99.16-2 Free X11 
implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X

However:
% fink install ghostscript
/usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink  install ghostscript
Information about 1722 packages read in 3 seconds.
The following package will be installed or updated:
 ghostscript
The following 2 additional packages will be installed:
 xfree86 xfree86-shlibs
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg -i 
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb 
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb
(Reading database ... 10225 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xfree86 (from .../xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
WARNING: if you compile X11 applications against this XFree86 release,
you will *not* be able to run them if you decide to revert to Apple's
X11 provided with Panther.

You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and/or /etc/X11.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86 again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you want
to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools
instead to make this known to Fink's package system.
Press Return to continue.
dpkg: error processing 
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb 
(--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Unpacking xfree86-shlibs (from 
.../xfree86-shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...

You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6/lib.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86-shlibs again. (The package won't be recompiled.)
Press Return to continue.
dpkg: error processing 
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb 
(--install):
 subprocess pre-installation script retur

[Fink-beginners] How to get help on Fink

[Phil Thomson]

Hi all,
I just want to say that I've been having a lot of trouble getting help 
with fink on this list. I know this is probably due to limited resources 
on the part of the people here who seem to answer most of the questions 
(Thank you, Alexander and Martin!), so I'm very understanding, and not 
critical at all, but I need some help that I'm finding it hard to get on 
this list.

I'm wondering if there is another place I can go to get help with fink. 
I've been having a devil of a time trying to update pango, apparently 
because of some issues with freetype headers. I appreciate the help that I 
have received here in this regard, but I've often had to repost my 
questions up to three times before getting an answer, and I don't feel 
like I'm doing much to contribute to the signal-to-noise ratio when I do 
that. If someone can refer me to another place to go to get support for 
this and other fink questions, I would be much obliged.

TIA.
P
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Re: [Fink-beginners] Troubles with xfree

[Alexander K. Hansen]

On Jul 26, 2004, at 2:33 AM, david bonde wrote:
At 18.40 -0400 04-07-25, Alexander K. Hansen wrote/04-07-25, 18.40  
-0400 skrev Alexander K. Hansen

OK, this is good:  the packages are built but not installed.  Try  
running

dpkg -l "*xfree86*" to see if you have any half-installed bits of  
XFree86 installed by some chance.
% dpkg -l "*xfree86*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|  
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half- 
installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:  
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name   Version Description
+++-==- 
==- 
=== 
=
un  system-xfree86  (no description  
available)
in  xfree864.3.99.16-2 (no description  
available)
in  xfree86-base(no description  
available)
in  xfree86-base-shlibs (no description  
available)
pn  xfree86-base-threaded   (no description  
available)
pn  xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs(no description  
available)
un  xfree86-rootless(no description  
available)
un  xfree86-rootless-shlibs (no description  
available)
un  xfree86-rootless-threaded   (no description  
available)
un  xfree86-rootless-threaded-shlibs(no description  
available)
in  xfree86-shlibs 4.3.99.16-2 (no description  
available)

Now?
Ah--you don't have any stray packages installed, which is good, but  
xfree86 and xfree86-shlibs are now marked to be installed.  The easiest  
way to do this is to use the dselect command ("sudo dselect" actually)  
to change the status.

% sudo dpkg -r --force-all system-xfree86 system-xfree86-42  
system-xfree86-43
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86 which  
isn't installed.
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86-42 which  
isn't installed.
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86-43 which  
isn't installed.

What is next?
Nothing from this:  these are completely obsolete packages that no  
longer exist.

Shouldn't the FAQ be updated?
Not really--the whole reason that this entry exists is for users who  
haven't updated their systems in a while, and still have the old  
packages.

Thanks
David
--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
--
Alexander Hansen
Fink Documentarian
[Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX

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