Re: Installing XFree86 4.3 on RHL 7.3
Rex Dieter <[email protected]>
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On Friday 16 May 2003 11:00 am, Michael B Allen wrote: > 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. You'll soon find out that porting rawhide's 4.3.0 will force you to rebuild/back-port many, many dependancy packages too (making it not really worth it), including but not limited to: fontconfig, Xft2(mostly included in XFree86 now): this is the hardest part. kernel-drm as well as lots of subtle incompatibilies between XF 4.2 and 4.3 that would/should require rebuilding other packages for the new XFree86. In short, IMHO, you're best either sticking with RH 7.3/XFree84-4.2.x(*) or simply upgrading to RH9/XFree-4.3.0 -- Rex A. Dieter [email protected] Computer System Administrator http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska Lincoln p.s. (*) I have an (experimental, no-support, no-warranty) backport of mharris' (hopefully-soon-to-be-released-errata) XFree-4.2.1 packages available from my apt repository: ftp://apt.unl.edu/apt/7.3/RPMS.xfree86/ _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com