On Tuesday 09 September 2003 08:20 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Hi all,
Question about the fontconfig programs now being needed by some programs. The latest Gimp build, 1.3.20 complains about fontconfig when trying to start with the standard XFree86 files installed. Although XFree86 includes fontconfig, programs like Gimp are not seeing that without having the fontconfig program installed separate from the XFree86. Correct me if my logic or thoughts are wrong, please.
Now I have the fontconfig rpms, but when trying to install them, of course, XFree86 complains, XFree86-devel complains, xf86tools and XFree86-libs.
So how does one proceed at this point? Install with a --replacefiles? Rebuild the src XFree86 rpms, altering the spec files not to include fontconfig or?
Suggestions, comments welcome! Pat -- ================
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. Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3-3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...