Java won't install due to nonsensical X11 errors

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Sep 19 16:42:20 UTC 2011


On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Mark Stosberg wrote:

> I'm trying to get any version of Java 1.5+ installed on FreeBSD 8.1.
>
> Trying either Diablo or OpenJDK ends with the following errors.
>
> The strange thing is, the statements don't make sense. All
> the "unsatisfied dependencies" are already satisfied according to it.
>
> What can I can do I about this? (I'll further add: this is a headless
> server, which will never run X on anyway).
>
> Here's the error:
>
> ####
> Requested 'xproto >= 7.0.13' but version of Xproto is 7.0.10
> Requested 'x11 >= 1.2.99.1' but version of X11 is 1.1.3
> Requested 'xextproto >= 7.0.3' but version of XExtProto is 7.0.2
> Requested 'xext >= 1.0.99.1' but version of Xext is 1.0.3
> Requested 'inputproto >= 1.9.99.902' but version of InputProto is 1.4.2.1

How do you feel these are already satisfied?  It says you have xproto 
7.0.10 but 7.0.13 is required.  Likewise for the rest, the version you 
have is not new enough.


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