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Muddled in Installation of tar. - Spinor5 - 2004-10-27
Hi am a newbie, this is my second day on linus so please forgive me if I am asking a stupid question.
I wanted to install xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0-9.i386.rpm so i downloaded and did the following
1) $ rpm -i xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0-9.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
fontconfig-devel >= 2.1 is needed by xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0-9
2) so dowmloaded and ran $ rpm -i fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-5.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
fontconfig = 2.2.3 is needed by fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-5
3) so downloaded fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz and did the following:
$ gunzip -c fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd fontconfig-2.2.3
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
All this seemed to run fine
so tried step 2) again, $ rpm -i fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-5.i386.rpm and got the same error message, so why can't it find fontconfig?
Thanks
Spinor5
Muddled in Installation of tar. - anyweb - 2004-10-27
first off welcome to the forums
secondly, what distro are you using, and what version
and lastly, exactly what are you trying to accomplish here ? there are easier ways i'm sure,
more info please
cheers
anyweb