Fink problem with xfree86

[chevy]

I have a conflict that I cannot solve with xfree86 when installing SW from Fink. It announces it interferes with system-xfree86.

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
dpkg: regarding .../xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb containing xfree86:
 system-xfree86 conflicts with x11
  xfree86 provides x11 and is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing xfree86
dpkg: regarding .../xfree86-shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb containing xfree86-shlibs:
 xfree86-shlibs conflicts with system-xfree86
  system-xfree86 (version 4.2-11) is installed.
dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-shlibs_4.3.99.16-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing xfree86-shlibs
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /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
### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't batch-install packages: /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

Should I uninstall system-xfree86 ?

 

[Cat]

Well, it looks like you are trying to install XFree86, which is an X11 window manager implementation, while you already have another one (presumably Apple's X11.app) installed (which is why you have the system-xfree86 package).

What exactly were you trying to do? If you want to install Fink's X11, you should indeed uninstall system-xfree86. However, Apple's X11 works fine so I don't know why you woul dwant to do that. On the other hand if this happens because of dependencies requiring XFree86, then something is wrong with your system-xfree86 package. Try doing fink selfupdate and then update or reinstall the system-xfree86 package.

 

[chevy]

Yeah, this is related to the dependancies. I'll try to de-install and re-install system-xfree86.

Tx

 

[chevy]

Didn't work, I'm uninstalling the whole /sw and reinstalling fink.

 

[Cat]

That's too bad. I hope you hadn't too much stuff in there ... my /sw is well over a GB ...

 

[chevy]

Mine was big too... but that's all imported and automatically generated data. Just time taking.

 

[lurk]

Just for the record fink changed the way it handles system dependencies and system-xfree has gone away. You are having problems because you have been using fink for too long and got tangled up in the whole mess. There are directions on the fink website describing how to fix this but it is hard to find and I don't remember it well.