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Re: XFree 3.2 Upgrade question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Weible)
Tue Nov 19 22:01:15 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:52:40 -0700 (MST)
From: Todd Weible <toddw@myhouse.cyberhighway.net>
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In-Reply-To: <199611200210.VAA07148@vuser.vu.union.edu>
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Rob Hagopian wrote:
[snip]
for what it's worth, I had the same problems mentioned below.
Todd
toddw@cyberhighway.net
>
> I just tried to upgrade, from a clean install of RH4.0 done last week
> (+ errata & sendmail 8.8.2-3, ie. no MetroX). I was unable to install
> XFree86-3.2-1.i386.rpm using rpm -hivU.
>
> I tried removing all of the XFree packages, but, of course, failed on the
> main one (XFree86), which all of the things like emacs-X11.
>
> The big problem appears to be libraries, so I tried to install XFree86-3.2-libs,
> but this failed too, until I tried a --force. Now it installed, but the main
> package complained of a dependancy problem, it wanted xinitrc... a --nodeps
> fixed that, but two errors develop:
> cannot remove /usr/X11R6/man/man1 - directory not empty
> cannot remove /usr/X11R6/include/X11 - directory not empty
>
> VGA16 installs now, so does devel, SVGA and the 75/100 dpi fonts.
>
> XF86Setup wants libtcl.so and libtk.so, which, of course are installed.
> ([root@vuser XFree86-3.2]$ rpm -qif /usr/lib/libtcl.so
> Name : tcl Distribution: Red Hat Linux Rembrandt)
> again, the --nodeps works...
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