Re: NCL installation problem with MACOSX

From: Jeff Whitaker (jswhit AT XXXXXX)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 19:14:02 MST

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    On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Rick Grubin wrote:

    > Hello Kip,
    >
    > This issue came up last week:
    >
    > > I tried to install NCL under MACOSX 10.2.8 and received these messages:
    > >
    > > Unpacking ncl (from .../ncl_4.2.0.a028-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
    > > dpkg: error processing
    > > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/sci/ncl_4.2.0.a028-1_darwin
    > > -powerpc.deb (--install):
    > > trying to overwrite `/sw/lib/ncarg/ngwww/ngurl', which is also in package
    > > ncarg
    > > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
    > > Errors were encountered while processing:
    > > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/sci/ncl_4.2.0.a028-1_darwi
    > > n-powerpc.deb
    > > ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1
    > > Failed: can't install package ncl-4.2.0.a028-1
    > >
    > > What now?
    >
    > Two possible solutions for you:
    >
    > There is a command in fink to overwrite:
    >
    > sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite fname

    >
    > where fname is the .deb file for ncl.
    >
    > You may have an older ncarg package, you need 4.3.1-2 to avoid this
    > problem. Try "fink update ncarg".
    >

    Kip:

    Actually, what you need to do is "fink selupdate-cvs" then "fink update
    ncl" - the newer ncl package doesn't have this conflict with ncarg.

    -Jeff

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