[EMBOSS] More on EMBOSS install on OS X: refuses to overwrite X11

[Koen van der Drift]

On Mar 30, 2005, at 9:23 PM, Robin Colgrove wrote:

> You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and/or /etc/X11.
> This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
> install xfree86 again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you want
> to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp.  
> system-xtools
> instead to make this known to Fink's package system.
>

Sorry that fink is giving you so much problems. It can indeed be  
frustrating for new users, especially with all the X11 options. If I  
understand it correctly, you are building xfree86 from fink, but you  
already have it installed by yourself. I suggest you remove (or better,  
move it to a temp folder so you can always move it back) the /usr/X11R6  
and /etc/X11 directories, and try the fink package again. You have to  
make sure that you install everyting from the same package, don't mix  
and match your xfree86 with apple's X11, or fink's xorg. See also this  
entry in the fink FAQ:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php?phpLang=en#x-options

> dpkg: error processing  
> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/ 
> xfree86_4.4.0-13_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):

I see that you are using the stable tree from fink. Emboss 2.10 is so  
far only available in the unstable tree. This doesn't mean that it is  
not working, it means that there hasn't been feedback from users that  
it is working with or without problems. Please keep me informed if you  
got it to work, since I am the maintainer of the emboss package in  
fink. If you give me positive feeedback, I can move it to the stable  
tree.

http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php?phpLang=en#unstable


Finally, if everything went fine, I can highly recommend the  
emboss-kaptain package from fink which will give you a very nice GUI in  
X11.

good luck,

- Koen.