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Description of Problem: XFree86-4.2.0-6.24 fails to install because it can't find mkfontdir - even if it's there: root@localhost i386]# rpm -Fvh XFree* error: failed dependencies: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-6.24 /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir is needed by XFree86-xfs-4.2.0-6.24 Isn't mkfontdir provided by XFree-xfs? Anyway, I rebuilt the src.rpm using rpm -bc. mkfontdir is built (without any errors). I copied it to /usr/X11/bin. [root@localhost i386]# ls /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfont* /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir Still the same result from rpm -Fvh. Do I just -nodeps? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -Fvh XFree 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Your RPM command failed, because it is incorrect. You need to download all of the XFree86 rpm's, and then use: rpm -Uvh XFree86-*.rpm mkfontdir has moved from the XFree86-xfs subpackage to the XFree86-font-utils subpackage, so that you do not need to install or use xfs to get mkfontdir and ttmkfdir to install fonts. rpm -Fvh only upgrades packages which are installed already, and since XFree86-font-utils is not installed already, the xfs package that is on your system that contains mkfontdir, gets replaced with the new one without mkfontdir, the dependancy is no longer met.