<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">I have been updating my gwTex installation and ran into difficulties with the Ghostview package. The installation fails with "</font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Unarchive stage failed"</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; "></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">I use Mac OS X 10.5 with X installed on a MacBook</font></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The Sub process window shows: </font></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">/usr/bin/tar: ./usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults: Cannot open: File exists</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">/usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">It seems the package wants to create a symlink from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">/etc/X11/app-defaults which contains the GV X settings</font></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; "></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">I already have a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults file I assume created as part of the Apple X install. I renamed it, the GV package install worked, and I shifted the GV settings file to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults after deleting the symlink</font></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">I report this here because Gerben has announced that these packages are no longer supported, and there are likely to be others who have this problem.</font></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">David Abernethy </font></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>