On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, JJ Henricksen wrote:
I am trying to install xfree86 so that I can install KDE and KDevelop etc.
In blissful ignorance of this installation I followed the advice on the macshadows web page here: http://www.macshadows.com/kb/index.php?title=Installing_KDE_on_Mac_OS_X
I installed fink. I did not find X11, although I thought I would find it on my version of Mac.
I ran "fink install Xfree86" in my terminal and left my computer to it...
Selecting previously deselected package xfree86-shlibs. Unpacking xfree86-shlibs (from .../xfree86-shlibs_4.5.0-1024_darwin-i386.deb) ... Setting up xfree86-shlibs (4.5.0-1024) ... Setting up xfree86 (4.5.0-1024) ... /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/xfree86.postinst: line 23: 654 Segmentation fault /usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing xfree86 (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139 Errors were encountered while processing: xfree86 ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't batch-install packages: /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86_4.5.0-1024_darwin-i386.deb /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-shlibs_4.5.0-1024_darwin-i386.deb
The web page did not tell me what to do about this and I could not find a way to test the configuration for Xfree86.
Then I installed FinkCommander highlighted xfree86 and clicked the "Selfupdate -rsync" button. The FinkCommander told me that all was well: "Self-repair succeeded. Please re-try your command." The display looks like: flagged status name installed version binary category summary NO archived xfree86 4.5.0-1024 4.5.0-1040 x11-system Free X11 implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X NO current xfree86-base-threaded provided virtual [virtual package] NO xfree86-base-threaded-dev virtual [virtual package] NO current xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs provided virtual [virtual package] NO current xfree86-shlibs 4.5.0-1024 4.5.0-1024 4.5.0-1040 x11-system Free X11 implementation for Darwin and Mac OS X
Am I OK now?
Dunno. You'd have to ask whoever generated those packages. While we provide binaries for various platforms, they are not system-specific packages such as rpm's, deb's, etc.
Secondly, several build & install issues on Darwin have recently been resolved (post 4.6.0), so you might want to build from CVS source.
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