[Jerry Talkington <jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 12:55:57AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 05:06:19PM -0500, Deadcow wrote:
> > how's it going, I'm installing on a MAC panther. I have fink untar'd 
> > and installed, when I go to...
> > fink install ethereal I have to pick my virtual dependency and I pick 
> > the xfree86 distribution. Installing at this point stops and I get 
> > this..
> > 
> > You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and/or /etc/X11.

This really should go to the fink-users mailing list, as they will be
able to tell you which package needs to be installed.

> You probably *do* have an existing X11 installation, if, when Panther
> was installed on your machine, you requested that X11 be installed - X11
> comes with Panther.
> 
> You should ask the Fink people to produce packages for Panther that
> don't require X11; the Mac OS X11 is probably the one most people should
> be using.

There's actually a fink virtual package for the Apple installed
dependency, (which should probably be detected at fink install time, but
isn't,) he just didn't pick the right one ;)

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