Installing XFree86 4.3 on RHL 7.3

Michael B Allen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.valhalla,gmane.linux.redhat.xfree86
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[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.

Also I don't know why I'm getting the pkgconfig dependency:

# rpm -qf /usr/lib/pkgconfig/
fontconfig-devel-2.1-9

but where is ttmkfdir? It used to be in XFree86-font-utils-4.2.0-8.

[root@quark rpm]# for i in *.rpm 
> do
> echo $i
> rpm -qpl $i | grep ttmk
> done
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-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-Xnest-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm <-- should be here?
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-doc-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-tools-4.3.0-10.i386.rpm
XFree86-truetype-fonts-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

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike
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