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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