mandrake 10 install xfree86-devel help

zackarya · 08-02-2004, 03:17 PM

Hi everyone. I'm trying to install xfree86-devel in mandrake 10 official. However I'm getting this error -

error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/include/GL: cpio: rename failed - Is a directory

The command I'm using to install is - urpmi xfree86-devel

Anyone know how I can resolve this issue?
Thanks for your time.

eisman · 08-02-2004, 04:32 PM

Well I know that in the cooker version Mandrake is going to use X.org 's XFREE.

But your problem is strange. Have you updated your package list already?

urpmi.update -a

Try it then again and hopefull it would work for you.

zackarya · 08-02-2004, 04:49 PM

Thanks for your reply eisman, I figured it out. For those of you who might run into this or a similar problem, what had happened is I had installed a package (ati driver) and it created /usr/include/GL as a actual directory. When I went to install xfree86-devel it was wanting it to be a link. So I renamed the /usr/include/GL to /usr/include/GLBackup and made a link called GL to it ex. ln -s GL GLBackup. So that was it.