Thanks for the speedy reponse Tom, comments interspersed below ... On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:18:48 -0500 (EST) Tom Diehl <tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. OK. I'll go research them. > > > > > The package manager has no options, so I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. > > Why could you possibly think that?? Sorry, I over-simplified: I meant in terms of driving the Gnome interface to rpm, not with rpm itself. It's clear I'm doing something wrong there ;-) > > > Any clues, please ? > > If you are referring to rpm it has many options. man rpm to view them. Yeah, that's not my problem. I was trying to simplify life by using the graphic interface, but clearly that only works for the initial install. That would appear to be my basic error here. > > 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. > OK, so now I'm officially confused. I'm running the Alert Notification Tool and up2date, and between them they tell me I am up to date for RH 8.0. Yet you say I should be on 4.2.1-23 for RH8.0 ??? Could you just confirm you meant what you said? Thanks. J. ======================================= > HTH, > > ...Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
