JJ
Yves de Champlain <yves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Le 07-06-06 à 11:52, Marc Aurele La France a écrit :
> 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.
Indeed. MacPorts provide XFree86 4.6.0. I am thinking of providing
a port based on a recent snapshot too.
yves
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