Re: Unable to update geant4.9

Thank you!  That fixed the problem.

JJK

> On Sep 3, 2023, at 12:40 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 9/3/23 11:58 AM, James Kolata via Fink-beginners wrote:
>>> On Sep 3, 2023, at 10:32 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> `fink list openmotif4` to make sure that the only packages you have installed are part of the openmotif4-2level group. It might be OK to have "openmotif4-shlibs" installed, but "openmotif4" and "openmotif4-bin" should not be installed.
>>> 
>>> Hanspeter
>>> 
>> I encountered a problem doing this:
>> fink list openmotif4
>> Information about 14745 packages read in 3 seconds.
>>      mesa-libglw-openmotif4          7.8.2-4                 Xt / Motif OpenGL widgets
>>      mesa-libglw-openmotif4-shlibs   7.8.2-4                 Xt / Motif OpenGL widgets
>>      openmotif4                      2.3.4-16                Official Implementation of OSF/Motif
>>  i   openmotif4-2level               2.3.8-1                 Official Implementation of OSF/Motif
>>      openmotif4-2level-bin           2.3.8-1                 End user executables for openmotif4
>>  i   openmotif4-2level-common        2.3.8-1                 Common files for openmotif4-2level
>>  i   openmotif4-2level-shlibs        2.3.8-1                 Official Implementation of OSF/Motif
>>  i   openmotif4-bin                  2.3.4-16                Official Implementation of OSF/Motif
>>  i   openmotif4-shlibs               2.3.4-16                Official Implementation of OSF/Motif
>> fink remove openmotif4-bin
>> Password:
>> Information about 14745 packages read in 1 seconds.
>> Reading buildlock packages...
>> /opt/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait --remove openmotif4-bin
>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of openmotif4-bin:
>>  geant4.9 depends on openmotif4-bin (>= 2.3.4-13).
>> dpkg: error processing package openmotif4-bin (--remove):
>>  dependency problems - not removing
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  openmotif4-bin
>> ### execution of /opt/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
>> ERROR: Can't remove package(s). If the above error message mentions dependency problems, you can try
>>   fink remove --recursive openmotif4-bin
>> This will attempt to remove the package(s) specified as well as ALL packages that depend on it.
>> Can I do the recursive remove or will that cause other problems?
> 
> Recursive remove should work. Can also just
> `fink remove geant4.9 openmotif4-bin` then install openmotif4-2level-bin
> 
> Hanspeter
> 
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