I got a new laptop a few days ago, to which I installed Fedora 12, and I am trying to install xmacro on it. I downloaded

xmacro-pre0.3-3.1.x86_64.rpm

and tried to install it, but I get a failed dependencies error.

$ rpm -i xmacro-pre0.3-3.1.x86_64.rpm

error: Failed dependencies:
libX11 libXtst is needed by xmacro-pre0.3-3.1.x86_64

so I try to install these dependencies, but it appears to be already installed.

$ yum install libX11 libXtst

Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package libX11-1.3-1.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.fc12.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

I am really confused. I also tried

$ yum localinstall xmacro-pre0.3-3.1.x86_64.rpm

and got a messier output that I do not understand. I'll make a separate post with this so this one doesn't get too long.

I looked at this thread and one of the posts says there are instructions here but the link does not work for me.

I installed xmacro on my old laptop (Debian) with no problems. I don't remember how, but I suppose it will be different installing an rpm anyway.

Can someone please help me?

Jeremy

Here is the output of the following:

$ yum localinstall xmacro-pre0.3-3.1.x86_64.rpm

Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Local Package Process
Examining xmacro-pre0.3-3.1.x86_64.rpm: xmacro-pre0.3-3.1.x86_64
Marking xmacro-pre0.3-3.1.x86_64.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package xmacro.x86_64 0:pre0.3-3.1 set to be updated
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 254, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 150, in main
(result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 862, in buildTransaction
(rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 691, in resolveDeps
CheckDeps, checkinstalls, checkremoves, missing = self._resolveRequires(errors)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 793, in _resolveRequires
(checkdep, missing, errormsgs) = self._processReq(po, dep)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 260, in _processReq
CheckDeps, missingdep = self._requiringFromTransaction(po, requirement, errormsgs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 502, in _requiringFromTransaction
msg = self._err_missing_requires(requiringPo, requirement)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 290, in _err_missing_requires
msg = self.dsCallback.format_missing_requires(reqPo, reqTup)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 1656, in format_missing_requires
msg += _('\n Requires: %s') % (ui_req,)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

I still have no idea what the problem is, but I found another rpm file here and that installed with no problems.

Jeremy

It's just an insignificant bug in an install script for
that package. Happens for say one of hundred packages.

The command :
rpm -Uvh --nodeps xmacro-pre0.3-3.1.x86_64.rpm
... should do the trick.
...