On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Julian Opificius wrote: > Apologies if the answer to this is well known - I've just subscribed to this list. > I'm trying to add the X develpment support package to my RH8 installation using the package manager. I get an error message telling me I have to add XFree-libs-4.2.0 before I can continue, yet I have 4.2.1-21 installed, per "rpm -q XFree-libs". You need to install devel packages that match the installed XFree86 packages. Rpm will not let you mix and match. You might want to look at something like yum or rpm-apt to make your life easier. > > The package manager has no options, so I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. Why could you possibly think that?? > Any clues, please ? If you are referring to rpm it has many options. man rpm to view them. Oh btw, the latest Xfree rpms for RHL 8.0 are XFree86-*-4.2.1-23. You might want to update the machine to the latest and greatest packages. This might be some of your problem as older packages tend to be hard to find. HTH, ...Tom _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
