Re: install of xfree86 onto mac os x 10.4.9

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On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Yves de Champlain 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.

Well, unless there's a really pressing need, I'd hold off on that if I were you. 4.7.0 is to be released within the next month or two.

Marc.

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