Re: XFree86

Well, I doubt the path to be circular, but in dealing with these problems, I usually find that I have to go preety far back.
For instance, glibc may need kernel-headers-2.2.5. X (I know) needs glibc and various X libs other than that. If you want to do
this, I would reccomend compiling the X packages yourself. You can get them from www.xfree86.org and theu tend to have no
problem compiling (in my experiences.)

-Brian


Ian Wright wrote:

> From: "Ian Wright" <Ian@...>
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to upgrade to the latest version of XFree86 ( I am currently
> using the one which ships with RedHat 5.2) but I seem to be heading for the
> swamp when I try. I have the RedHat 6.0 CDs which contain the XFree86 3.3.*
> rpms and I tried using the KDE package manager to install a couple of
> these - each time I got a failure message telling me that it could not
> install the packages due to dependency problems - i.e. it needed other
> packages installing first. The difficulty seemed to be that the dependencies
> were heading for a circular tour! Has anyone upgraded XFree using the rpms
> and, if so, is there a set path you have to follow in the order in which
> they should be processed. As an alternative, what would be involved in
> installing the whole of this 6.0 release and then doing a retro to the
> 2.0.35 kernel. Would it cause problems in reinstalling the RT patch?
> --
> Ian W. Wright
> Sheffield UK
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