RPM dependencies and XFree86
John Reynolds
jreyn at us.ibm.com
Tue Jun 22 17:45:37 UTC 2004
Having spent an hour scouring the Web with Google, I am at the wall with
what should have been a simple RPM update. THis may not be the perfect
forum, but it's certainly worth asking.
I have an Itanium running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3. I need
to upgrade XFree86 for security reasons. Some RPMs have gone in, some
won't.
Current installs :
[root at hplinux2 ia64]# rpm -qa | grep XFree86
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-twm-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-62.EL
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-tools-4.3.0-62.EL
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-doc-4.3.0-62.EL
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-55.EL
XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-4.3.0-35.EL
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-55.EL
XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-35.EL
[root at hplinux2 ia64]#
What I'm trying to upgrade :
[root at hplinux2 ia64]# ls X*
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-doc-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-tools-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-twm-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-62.EL.ia64.rpm
What happens:
[root at hplinux2 ia64]# rpm -Uvh --force XFree86*
error: Failed dependencies:
XFree86-libs-data = 4.3.0-55.EL is needed by (installed)
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-55.EL
[root at hplinux2 ia64]#
I've been pondering using '--nodeps', but various sources suggest staying
away from that at all costs.
I could use some advice. Thanks.
John Reynolds
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