On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 12:23, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 22:12, Bill and/or Chris wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 04:19, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 18:00, Bill and/or Chris wrote: > > > > Is there an easy way to upgrade XFree86 to version 4.3 in Red Hat 8.0? > > > > I downloaded the source rpm and compiled them, but when I tried to > > > > upgrade, I got the following error message: > > > > > > > > error: Failed dependencies: > > > > Xft-devel >= 1.9.1.020626.1517-1 is needed by (installed) > > > > pango-devel-1.1.1-1 > > > > Xft is needed by (installed) libgnomeui-2.0.3-3 > > > > Xft >= 1.9.1 is needed by (installed) qt-3.0.5-17 > > > > > > > > Aren't Xft and Xft-devel provided by XFree86-libs and XFree86-devel, > > > > respectively? Or are these versions incompatible with my versions of > > > > pango-devel, libgnomeui and qt? If I have to upgrade libgnomeui and qt, > > > > I have to upgrade a whole bunch of other applications, and it would just > > > > be easier to upgrade to Red Hat 9. > > > > > > It might be in the end. Though for the above you can just install the > > > XFree86 packages with --nodeps. > > > > > > The rule with --nodeps with it is never use it unless you can > > > explain why you need it :-) > > > > > > The reason you need it here is that the Xft libraries got moved > > > into XFree86-libs instead being in a separate package as > > > they were in Red Hat 8. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Owen > > > > So what problems might I run into if I upgrade with --nodeps? > > If the above are the only errors you get when you install without, > then I think it probably will work fine without any problems. > > But --nodeps is saying "I know better than the packaging", so really > anything _could_ happen. With --nodeps you won't catch problems where > a newer kernel or newer glibc is needed. > > It's unlikely that anything worse than X not starting will happen :-) > > Regards, > Owen That sounds pretty bad. :-) Maybe I should have my RH9 CDs on hand when I do this, just in case. _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
