Hi all.

I have a question about updating with yum.

After yum downloaded and installed all the updates, I now have 2 entries on my Fedora install upon boot. the two entries denote the old kernel version, and the new one. Is this normal? I also think that this may be the cause of why I get the following error when trying to build and install xine on this distro, since no video player that I can find came with the install:

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WARNING! No X11 output plugins will be built.

For some reason, the requirements for building the X11 video
output plugins are not met. That means, that you will NOT be
able to use the resulting xine-lib to watch videos in a window
on any X11-based display (e.g. your desktop).

If this is not what you want, provide the necessary X11 build
dependencies (usually done by installing a package called
XFree86-devel or similar) and run configure again.

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When I go into Add/Remove Applications, it shows that XFree86 is installed, yet even after running a repair, I still have the same problem. Anyone have any clues about this issue?

Thanks to all that have the time to respond!!!

Its asking you to install XFree86-devel which is separate from the regular XFree86.

Whenever I use Yum in Fedora and it updates/upgrades the kernel it always updates grub ( I don't use LILO ) with the new kernel entry and leaves the old one in place. This is done in case there is a problem with the new kernel booting so you can always use the old one to have a working system. If you don't want it to show at boot up you can do one of two things: 1) open your /boot/grub/menu.lst file with a text editor and take out the entry you don't want or 2) open the same file with a text editor and comment out (put # in front of the line) the choice you don't want to appear.

rberry88

Better check this thread out.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=86898

Maybe this one also.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=88394

Hi all!

Thanks for the responses and the references to my question. I will read these and get back as soon as I can.

Once again, thank you kindly for all your time and effort!

sax

Hi all....

This has become a very frustrating issue, considering I installed the same exact version of xine on RH9 with no problems whatsoever.

After I have downloaded XFree86-devel, I get the following error:

"error: Failed dependencies:
fontconfig-devel >= 2.1 is needed by XFree86-devel-4.3.0-55"

After installing fontconfig-devel-2.1-9.i386.rpm, I get the following error:

"error: Faqiled dependencies:
fontconfig = 2.1 is needed by fontconfig-devel-2.1-9
freetype-devel >= 2.1.2-7 is needed by fontconfig-devel-2.1-9"

After downloading the appropriate rpms for fontconfig and freetype and running the rpm -Uvh command, I get the following error message:

"package fontconfig-2.2.1-6.1 (which is newer than fontconfig-2.1-9) is already installed"

When trying to locate and install the corresponding rpm for fontconfig-devel-2.2.1-6.1, I find a link (http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RP...-6.1.i386.html) I am only able to find a file called

"fontconfig-2.2.1-6.1.src.rpm"

This and the freetype-devel appear to run normally, but then when I go back to run the rpm for XFree86-devel, I get the same error.

Here are my questions:

* Are the packages really installing? If so, why are they not recognized by other packages?

* Why are all these packages necessary just to install xine?

* Why couldn't Fedora just put a f%&@ing video player with their distro?!?!?!

If this type of thing continues, I will have to hunt for another distro, or go back to RH9, as this is getting ridiculuous!!!

Oh, and BTW, here's a review of Fedora Core 1 that I found that may be of interest:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5111

Thanks to all!!!

if you are wanting to remove the old kernel from your boot up options, there is a way to do that. I at least know how to do it in grub. never used lilo, so can't help you there. A warning though. Don't do this until you have successfully booted up with the new kernel and verified everything works fine.

log in as root and open /boot/grub/grub.conf in a text editor. Find the the version of the kernel you want to remove from the boot screen and notate it out. Keep in mind that if you are running dual OS's, once you notate out the old kernel, you'll need to make sure the "default=0" line is selecting the correct OS you want to load as default.

Example of this:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Fedora Core 1 Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.img
#title Fedora Core 1 Old Kernel
# root (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
# initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Notice the default setting is 1. Well this is because my room mate likes to let people on my computer and I don't want them booting in to Linux by default (took me long enough to get working right, don't need them screwing it up), so I have it load XP for them by default.

I typically delete the old kernel out after I've verified all things work accordingly.

As for a video player. Check out X-Movie. Works like a charm for me and I didn't have to install anything extra to get it working.

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Don't.

Don't edit the GRUB boot menu to delete old kernel entries.

To remove old entries in the boot menu, simply uninstall the old kernel packages. That will get rid of the boot menu entries automatically, too.

Example (user "root" at command-line):

# rpm --query --all 'kernel*'
kernel-2.4.20-20.9
kernel-2.4.20-19.9
kernel-utils-2.4-8.29
kernel-doc-2.4.20-20.9
kernel-source-2.4.20-20.9

# rpm --erase kernel-2.4.20-19.9

ya see. it's true. ya learn something new everyday. that's cool about the rpm's. I am fairly new, so I didn't know any other way to remove the references to the old kernels other then removing them from the grub.conf file.

> After I have downloaded XFree86-devel, I get the following error:
>
> "error: Failed dependencies:
> fontconfig-devel >= 2.1 is needed by XFree86-devel-4.3.0-55"

This is easily fixed by using yum to install XFree86-devel:

# yum install XFree86-devel

Yum will take care of the dependencies for you...

To get a list of the XFree86 packages that are available for install:

# yum list XFree86*


/Les