Can't install GTK because of missing XFree86-libs
 

Hi there,

I installed Red Hat 9 for the first time ever this past weekend. I need to install the Gnome Development Toolkit, but I can't because I keep getting the message that "XFree86-libs package is not installed". So I downloaded the RPM off the RHN, but when I try to install it, I get the message that the package is already installed!

What gives? How can it be installed and yet still not be found when I try to Add the GTK package?

Please help. Thx.

please provide real file names and version numbers. you should already have the xfree86-libs package installed, otherwise you would have problems runngin X itself.

Okay.. in the System Settings > Add/Remove Packages, I selected "GNOME Software Development" and then clicked [Update]
=> I get the following (X) error message:
"Package Not Found
The following package could not be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until it is installed.
- Unlocatable package: XFree86-libs = 4.3.0-2
- Required by: XFree86-devel"

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Fine. So I go to the RHN and download: "XFree86-libs-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm"

=> When I double-click the file, I get the following <!> message:
"Package already installed

The package "XFree86-libs" is currently installed"

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So, what's up? I can't install the GTK because the libs pkg can't be found, but I can't install the package because it's already there. AAAARRRGGG!

Help!

Hi all,

Very new here...Thanks for all the help!

I'm having the same problem, no answer to be found. In trying to use rpmbuild it says I'm missing X devel stuff. I go to install them and it reads:

The following packages could not be found on your system. Installation cannot continue until they are installed.
XFree86-libs=4.3.0-2
netpbm=9.24-10

Now I'm running under gnomb, and needless to say running rpm -F xfree86-libs-4.3.0-2 says I already have the package. But running: "rpm -qa | grep free" returns nothing. I've recently installed my alsa driver, which required some modprob stuff, and JACK....but I can't see how this would effect anything having to do with X.

Thanks for any help available,
mike

I'm a big loser...and new my first post would be a stupid one.

Of course the problem was that I was installing packages off my RH cd, which depended on things that had been updated with up2date. So I just got the current/matching packages and all is well. At least, this is what seems to have happened???

thanks