Let me first give the disclaimer that I am an idiot, or at least, I am a linux newbie..
About a year ago I was trying to install perlmagick to get imagemagick to work with movable type on my redhat 7.3 box which I have through rosehosting.com.
As part of that I mess I installed xfree86, but came the conclusion once everything was working that it was not necessary for me to have it in order for perlmagick to work correcly.
About 2 weeks ago I was informed I was using up more than my share of storage space and so I went through and removed everything I didn't need. This included xfree86. Instead of uninstalling it I just deleted everything that seemed to be associated with xfree86.
Now I find that perlmagick needs those library files to work correctly. I am trying to reinstall xfree86 but as far as I can tell it is assuming it's just upgrading rather than installing completely fresh. Is there a way to force complete reinstall? Or is there a way for me to make it realize that I deleted everything (except a very important config file..)?
this is what I get when I try to install:
sh Xinstall.sh
Welcome to the XFree86 4.2.1 installer
You are strongly advised to backup your existing XFree86 installation
before proceeding. This includes the /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11
directories. The installation process will overwrite existing files
in those directories, and this may include some configuration files
that may have been customised.
If you are installing a version different from 4.2.1, you
may need an updated version of this installer script.
Do you wish to continue? (y/n) [n] y
Checking which OS you're running...
uname reports 'Linux' version '2.4.24-RHsmp122', architecture 'i686'.
Object format is 'ELF'. libc version is '6.2.5' (6.2).
Bindist version is 4.2.1
Checking for required files ...
Installing the update binary distribution
== Extracting /temp/xfree86/Xupdate.tgz ==
== Extracting /temp/xfree86/Xdrivers.tgz ==
== Extracting /temp/xfree86/Xdocupd.tgz ==
Running ldconfig
Update installation complete.
