Re: RH 6.2 install causes screen to explode

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Evans <peter@example.com> writes:

    Peter> rpm -i XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.6-20j1.i386.rpm

    Peter> but was told that this wouldn't work because of "failed
    Peter> dependencies": I need Xserver, libtcl.so, and libtk.so. Do
    Peter> I have to install these, or are they installed and just
    Peter> need activating somehow?

You need to install them.  Somebody who knows RPM may be able to give
you a shortcut, but the brute-force method is just to keep adding the
failed dependencies until you either succeed in installing or get a
conflict.

Try "rpm -q --whatprovides Xserver" (and then the various libraries)
to find out what packages are available to fulfill those dependencies.
You only want to install the Xserver for your video chip, and probably
anything that provides libtcl.so and libtk.so will do for those.

Once you've decided what you're going to install, you can stack them
all on the command line

rpm -i pkg1.rpm pkg2.rpm pkg3.rpm.

I'm a Debian user, and spoiled.  apt does all this automatically with
the --fix-broken flag.  :-)

    Peter> Peter "getting nostalgic for
    Peter> CP/M-80" Evans peter@example.com

Then why are you fussing about with X servers?  ;-)

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