On Wednesday 10 September 2003 02:57 am, James Ogley wrote:
Answering my own email folks, but seems this is not as big a problem as I thought it might be. When trying to install the separate fontconfig programs manually, several conflicts came up, but I then gave YaST2 a go at it and it wonderfully handled things with no conflicts and now Gimp 1.3.20 works! I think I saw James Ogley's name in the bugzilla about this same thing, where he got the same result. Install fontconfig and Gimp works.
Don't believe that there were no conflicts - YaST just didn't tell you about them, it did a forced install, which is what I did.
This means that your rpm database is inconsistent, and if you've got the ttf-bitstream-vera package from my site, you may have problems with the Vera fonts, because the fontconfig package will have overwritten the local.conf file from the vera package. It's unlikely this will happen though, as SuSE's fonts.conf file does have support for the Vera fonts
I only installed it to test is Sven's theory was correct, I then removed the fontconfig packages, and reapplied the conflicting packages, and resolved to stick with Gimp 1.3.19 until SuSE 9.0 comes out, because I assume that conficting installs like this will cause problems for APT users (Richard feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
Now, if Mike F did XFree86 etc packages to go alongside the fontconfig packages, so you didn't have to force that aspect of the install, and I could remove the local.conf from the vera package to make it all good... ;)
James -- ================
James, The fontconfig files seemed to behave after being installed. I check my /etc/fonts/local.conf and it was unchanged with the Bitstream Vera fonts left intact. Normally after doing a --force install, you still get the conflicts messages when you enter the Install/Remove software, but this is not the case, so I am not sure what Mike F. did, but the files seem to have integrated in the system ok. I have not seen any problems yet, but have seen some advantages. Not sure yet if the advantages are good or bad. ;o) I guess one could compile the src rpms for XFree86, XFree86-libs, XFree86-devel and xf86tools, adjust the spec files to not use the old fontconfig, then all would work nicely. Those were the 4 files that complained when I tried installing fontconfig & fontconfig-devel from Mike's site. Side note: I didn't get the Bitstream Vera fonts support until I added or replaced the local.conf file from the fonts package. IIRC, there was no local.conf file in /etc/fonts before I added it. Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...