Re: Xinitrc-1.5-103 install failure

Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Organization Snaggled Works
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 6/22/21 8:03 PM, Aric Newton wrote:
> Hi Fink Maintainers,
> 
> I am trying to install a package (Gnuplot) whose installation fails because it can’t find the package emacs whose installation attempts mostly fail because it can’t install xinitrc-1.5-103.  I say “mostly” because emacsen is the virtual package that gives the user seven options for emacs.  Five of the seven options fail because fink can’t install xinitrc-1.5-103.  The details of the error message associated with xinitrc-1.5-103 are:
> 
> Reading buildlock packages...
> /opt/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /opt/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/x11/xinitrc_1.5-103_darwin-x86_64.deb
> (Reading database ... 131292 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xinitrc 1.5-103 (using .../xinitrc_1.5-103_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement xinitrc ...
> Setting up xinitrc (1.5-103) ...
> The directory /opt/X11/lib/X11/xinit is missing.
> update-sys-xinitrc can not continue without this file.
> /opt/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing xinitrc (--install):
>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   xinitrc
> ### execution of /opt/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
> Failed: can't install package xinitrc-1.5-103

This is a known problem with Xquartz-2.8 that changed an install path in 
a backwards incompatible way.

https://github.com/fink/xinitrc/issues/1
https://github.com/fink/xinitrc/pull/4

Hanspeter

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