Re: The Trouble with X11 ...
Re: The Trouble with X11 ...
- Subject: Re: The Trouble with X11 ...
- From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:53:38 +0100
Jerry Talkington wrote:
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 07:19:39AM -0800, chris edmonds wrote:
Mainly from curiosity, and spurred on by an article in MacWorld, I've
been attempting to install X applications via fink/Fink Commander, as
well as the OpenDarwin port utility, for three days now with absolutely
no luck whatsoever.
When attempting to install via fink, and I receive a message, at some
point in the package compilation process (compilation, because there
appear to be no binaries available via FC), informing me that I already
have an X11 installation, that the package being installed refuses to
overwrite this installation, that I should remove the existing X11
installation and then reinstall XFree86 via fink (which fails in
exactly the same manner), or that I should install something or other
and make that known to fink in some unspecified way.
Did you install the system-xfree86 package for fink? That tells fink
that the dependency is covered, and should stop it from trying to
install a new version. If you have installed it, then try sending a
message to the fink-beginners mailing list with the specific error
message, and someone should be able to help you figure it out...
Wrong answer, sorry. There is no system-xfree86 package on recent
versions of Fink any more that you can install. Fink handles this now
automatically, but it checks carefully if there is a complete and
consistent X11 installed.
This is probably the most frequently asked and most answered question on
the fink mailing lists these past couple of weeks. See the FAQs #8.11
and #8.12 on the fink web site.
There are two possible reasons for this failure:
1. The user has some leftover installed or half-installed xfree86 fink
packages from previous versions of fink. These have to be removed
completely first and then Apple's X11 reinstalled if this was the case.
2. The Apple installer did not install complete X11 packages.
Unfortunately, this happens quite a lot on Panther with all kinds of
system packages. Many people had to install X11User.pkg and X11SDK.pkg
twice until everything was OK.
The point 2 is not a problem of Apple's X11 which works quite nicely. It
is a problem of the installer. I had this problem with the BSDSDK and
even the Essentials packages from the Panther CDs. Several thousand
files were missing, mostly man pages. They were simply not installed the
first time. A second run of the installer then installed them.
--
Martin
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