On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:29:15PM +0100, David Watkins wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to be posting this.
> 
> I'm trying to compile the ratpoison window manager, but not getting far.
> 
> ./configure fails with
> 
> "Can't find X11 headers and libs"
> 
> I'm out of my depth already, but I persevere.
> 
> Googling the error message produces a few hits but no real solution.
> 
> yum list xorg* reveals that I have xorg-x11-libs but that
> xorg-x11-devel is available for install, which looks a likely package
> to contain headers and libs, so I try
> 
> yum install xorg-x11-devel.i386
> 
> which gives
> 
> Transaction Listing:
>   Install: xorg-x11-devel.i386 0:6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2 - updates-released
> 
> Performing the following to resolve dependencies:
>   Install: fontconfig-devel.i386 0:2.2.3-5_2.rhfc3.at - atrpms
>   Install: freetype-devel.i386 0:2.1.9-1_4.rhfc3.at - atrpms
>   Install: libfontconfig1.i386 0:2.2.3-5_2.rhfc3.at - atrpms
>   Install: libfreetype6.i386 0:2.1.9-1_4.rhfc3.at - atrpms
>   Install: libttf2.i386 0:2.1.9-1_4.rhfc3.at - atrpms
>   Install: pkgconfig.i386 1:0.15.0-3_4.rhfc3.at - atrpms
>   Install: zlib-devel.i386 0:1.2.2.2-4_2.rhfc3.at - atrpms
>   Update: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 0:6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2 - updates-released
>   Update: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.i386 0:6.8.2-1.FC3.45.2 - updates-released
> 
> Total download size: 6.6 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> 
> Which looks promising, but then
> 
> Transaction Check Error:   file /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.0.4 from
> install of libfontconfig1-2.2.3-5_2.rhfc3.at conflicts with file from
> package fontconfig-2.2.3-5
>   file /usr/lib/libttf.so.2.3.0 from install of
> libttf2-2.1.9-1_4.rhfc3.at conflicts with file from package
> freetype-2.1.9-1
>   file /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.7 from install of
> libfreetype6-2.1.9-1_4.rhfc3.at conflicts with file from package
> freetype-2.1.9-1

It looks like yum planned to upgrade freetype-2.1.9-1 to
freetype-2.1.9-1_4.rhfc3.at, but then reordered its transaction set.

Are you running the lastest available yum? yum had such a bug some
time ago, so if not, please update yum first to the version found at
ATrpms.

> Any ideas on how to resolve this would be appreciated.  Meanwhile I'm
> off to see if I can find a ratpoison rpm for FC3
> 
> I'm running FC3, for which I did a yum upgrade when I installed about
> 6 months ago, but haven't touched since, and a 2.6.11 kernel that I
> compiled myself.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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