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Hi am a newbie, this is my second day on linus so please forgive me if I am asking a stupid question.

 

I wanted to install xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0-9.i386.rpm so i downloaded and did the following

 

1) $ rpm -i xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0-9.i386.rpm

error: Failed dependencies:

fontconfig-devel >= 2.1 is needed by xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0-9

2) so dowmloaded and ran $ rpm -i fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-5.i386.rpm

error: Failed dependencies:

fontconfig = 2.2.3 is needed by fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-5

3) so downloaded fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz and did the following:

$ gunzip -c fontconfig-2.2.3.tar.gz | tar xvf -

$ cd fontconfig-2.2.3

$ ./configure

$ make

$ make install

 

All this seemed to run fine

so tried step 2) again, $ rpm -i fontconfig-devel-2.2.3-5.i386.rpm and got the same error message, so why can't it find fontconfig?

 

Thanks

 

Spinor5


first off welcome to the forums

 

secondly, what distro are you using, and what version

 

and lastly, exactly what are you trying to accomplish here ? there are easier ways i'm sure,

 

more info please

 

cheers

 

anyweb