On 5 May 1998, Dave Mielke wrote:
> I do run RH5.0, and did try to use their RPMs. Even they
> (ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/hurricane/i386/XFree86*3.3.2*.i386.rpm) did
> not work.
>
> rpm -U XFree86-3.3.2-3.i386.rpm
> failed dependencies:
> XFree86-xwrapper is needed by XFree86-3.3.2-3
>
> rpm -U XFree86-xwrapper-3.3.2-3.i386.rpm
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X conflicts with file from xserver-wrapper-1.0-1
> error: XFree86-xwrapper-3.3.2-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> I could --force them, but I'll hang on a bit in case someone out there
> knows something regarding what the specific problem might be.
I would recommend that you uninstall the xserver-wrapper package then
install the XFree86-xwrapper package. The xwrapper package to which you
are trying to upgrade is not a later version of your existing package. It
is another package with another name which happens to contain some (or
all) of the same files (or later versions thereof). By definition, this
is a conflict between two separate packages. How is rpm to know that they
contain the same software? I believe the issue here is the fact that your
existing packages were built by RedHat and the 3.3.2 RPM's are contribs
built by a third party.
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