Re: Installing XFree86 4.3 on RHL 7.3

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On Thu, 15 May 2003, Michael B Allen wrote:

> [posting anew to xfree86-list as a reply to ongoing valhalla-list thread]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install XFree86 4.3.0 on RHL 7.3. The rawhide RPMs are
> built for post 7.3 so I'm working on the src.rpm. At first rpm complained
> about a lot of dependencies with devel packages but I got by that and
> created RPMS successfully.
> 
> However now while trying to install the following packages with rpm -Uvh
> all on one line:
> 
> XFree86-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-devel-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-libs-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-tools-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-twm-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> XFree86-doc-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
> 
> I get the following dependencies.
> 
> error: failed dependencies:
>         pkgconfig is needed by XFree86-devel-4.3.0-10
>         kernel-drm = 4.3.0 is needed by XFree86-4.3.0-10
>         /usr/bin/ttmkfdir   is needed by XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-10
>         /usr/bin/ttmkfdir   is needed by XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-10
> 
> So where do I get kernel-drm 4.3.0? Can I skip that? Currently I'm
> running kernel 2.4.18-3.

Maybe you need to build kernel-drm from rawhide too, and maybe a
matching kernel.

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