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im trying to install xorg-devel in fedora core 3. when i first tried i got some failed dependencies so i used yum to install 2 of the 3 listed. the third dependency was xorg-lib but yum could not find it so i cp it from my install cd and tried to install it. When i do so i get this message.
[root@x1-6-00-10-b5-f4-57-ac jeff]# rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
xorg-x11-libs = 6.8.1-12.FC3.21 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
xorg-x11-libs = 6.8.1-12.FC3.21 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
according to yum list installed i already have the version of xorg-lib that xorg-devel needs installed but when i try to install xorg-devel i still get the failed depency. (i cp the xorg-devel from the install cd as well) So i am stumped. If anyone has any clue and can help i thank them in advanced.
FC3 will include all of these on your distro CD, maybe only 6.8.0, not 6.8.1, but it's a lot easy to stick with what you've got... no need to upgrade unless you know why you're doing it, especially with RPM's, as all of the ones you got as deps, will already have been installed as a slightly (probably neglibly) different version. stick to your distro cd's in times like this.
first i try to install it and it says i need packageX. Then i use rpm and it says i already have packageX installed. Then i try to verify it and packageX seems to check out ok. So the only thing i can think of is that either something is making rpm report me incorrect results or the package im trying to install is faulty and not seeing packageX. I cp it from my FC3 install disk and am trying to install it from my home directory. Should i install it straight from the cd? Like maybe something happened in the process of copying. Should i use the system-config menu to install it? I don't know what else i can to do troubleshoot the problem.
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