Re: Dislin breaks 37 libraries on Fedora 8

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Joseph Thames wrote:
> Yesterday I installed the Dislin-9.2-1 Linux rpm along with
> openmotif 2.2.3.10.fc4.2 and xorg-X11-libs 6.8.1-12.fc3.1, which it
> requires.  When I tried to link it, I got a message that libXm.so.3
> was missing. This should have been installed with openmotif, but
> apparently wasn't.
>
> In trying to resolve this issue, I brought up the Synaptic package
> manager, and it said that 37 packages had been broken. To fix the
> broken packages, it wanted to remove the 3 packages I just
> installed. The broken packages are:
> 
> libdmx, libfontenc, libICE, libSM, libX11, llibXau, libXaw,
> libXcomposite, libXcursor, libXdamage, libXdmcp, libXevie, libXext,
> libXfixes, libXfont, libXfontcache, libXft, libxi, libxi,
> libXinerama, libXinerama, libxkbfile, libXmu, libXpm, libXandr,
> libXrender, libXres, libXScmSaver, libXt, libXTrap, libxtst, libXv,
> libXvMC, libXxf86dga, libXxf86misc, libXxf86vm, mesa-libGL,  and
> mesa-libGLU
> 
> This is a big show-stopper for me. I am in the process of porting a
> major application system from SUSE 9.0 and G77 to Fedora 8 and
> Gfortran. I am not interested in all the new features that these
> broken libraries support (whatever they are). I just want to be able
> to demo this application to my client in 3 weeks.
> 
> Please advise a course of action.

You should find packages built for Fedora 8 or rebuild them for Fedora
8.  Installing a bunch of packages built for fc4 and fc3 hardly seems
likely to work well.

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