Thanks for the help, ethereal is up and running!
Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Talkington" <jtalkington@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ethereal user support" <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] problems with installing X11
> 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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