Muddled in Installation of tar.

[Spinor5]

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

[anyweb]

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