tlug: Motif and XFree86-3.3.1

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

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan B Stone <stoneab@example.com> writes:

    Alan> I did a very brave thing (read possibly stupid).  I re-read
    Alan> the RPM Manager commands I decided to use the rpm -ivh
    Alan> --replacefiles rh-motif-devel*.

Nah, this just qualifies you as one who knows enough to use a command
like that.  Anyway, if it doesn't work, you soon will know enough
about it :-)

Suggestion: use the information command to RPM to ask the package what
files it installed.  See if it overwrote anything in the X
distribution, and if so, what.  Such overwriting will probably not
break X (very badly).

If it did, and you are worried about it, you can always reinstall X
over top of it.  This may or may not break Motif, if for example they
patched a fatal bug in X, and the patch hasn't made its way into the
XFree86 RPM yet.

Your grandchildren will be impressed, someday ;-)

Steve


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