I am trying to install gimp from fink commander's "Binary" menu. I
get this error:
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Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
E: The package xfree86 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.
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I am using Apple's X11 package and the "placeholder" virtual p
On Mar 14, 2004, at 4:36 PM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
I am trying to install gimp from fink commander's "Binary" menu. I
get this error:
-
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
E: The package xfree86 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.
-
I am usin
At 5:44 PM -0500 3/14/04, Alexander Hansen scribbled:
On Mar 14, 2004, at 4:36 PM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
I am trying to install gimp from fink commander's "Binary" menu.
I get this error:
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Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
E: The package xfree86 needs to be reinstal
Romeyn Prescott wrote:
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OK, groovy. But I'm not sure what it's telling me!
It tells you that everything is perfect. If you still come across a
package that is not happy with your X11 installation, then that package
(or one of its dependencies) must be broken. What version of gimp are
you try
At 1:05 AM +0100 3/15/04, Martin Costabel scribbled:
Romeyn Prescott wrote:
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OK, groovy. But I'm not sure what it's telling me!
It tells you that everything is perfect. If you still come across a
package that is not happy with your X11 installation, then that
package (or one of its dependenc
On Mar 14, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
At 5:44 PM -0500 3/14/04, Alexander Hansen scribbled:
On Mar 14, 2004, at 4:36 PM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
I am trying to install gimp from fink commander's "Binary" menu. I
get this error:
-
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency
At 7:43 PM -0500 3/14/04, Alexander Hansen scribbled:
How about the message from dpkg that the script called on?
Or run
dpkg -l "*xfree86*"
Thanks for all your time and assistance!
Output of that command:
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unp
On Mar 14, 2004, at 8:19 PM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
At 7:43 PM -0500 3/14/04, Alexander Hansen scribbled:
How about the message from dpkg that the script called on?
Or run
dpkg -l "*xfree86*"
Thanks for all your time and assistance!
Output of that command:
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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remo
Alexander Hansen wrote:
On Mar 14, 2004, at 8:19 PM, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
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dpkg -l "*xfree86*"
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iHR xfree864.3.99.901-2
This is a new one: In this situation, the fink virtual package system
doesn't see this half-installed package, so building from source would
start out OK,
Alexander K Hansen told Romeyn Prescott...
Or run
dpkg -l "*xfree86*"
and since Romeyn's problem looked much like one I'm having, I did the
same and got...
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Rei
On Mar 15, 2004, at 6:33 PM, Brett Duncan wrote:
Alexander K Hansen told Romeyn Prescott...
Or run
dpkg -l "*xfree86*"
and since Romeyn's problem looked much like one I'm having, I did the
same and got...
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked
At 9:20 PM -0500 15/3/04, Alexander Hansen wrote:
I'd say your best bet is to:
1) Clear out Apple's X11--but since you have a
working setup according to the presence of the
virtual packages, don't delete it but rename it:
sudo mv /etc/X11 /etc/X11.bak
sudo mv /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6.bak
2) clear
Brett Duncan wrote:
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dpkg: error processing xfree86 (--purge):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86 which isn't
installed.
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to
On Mar 15, 2004, at 11:11 PM, Brett Duncan wrote:
At 9:20 PM -0500 15/3/04, Alexander Hansen wrote:
I'd say your best bet is to:
1) Clear out Apple's X11--but since you have a working setup
according to the presence of the virtual packages, don't delete it
but rename it:
sudo mv /etc/X11 /etc/
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