Resolving deps for metacity updates

I'm trying to install the 'metacity-2.4.55-6' or 'metacity-2.5.3-3' rpms on
Red Hat 8.0 but they both have several dependancies:

error: Failed dependencies:
          libXrandr.so.2 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
          libstartup-notification-1.so.0 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
          redhat-artwork >= 0.62 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6

Of coarse, when I try to install those packages, they in turn have
dependencies and so on... could anyone please tell me what i'm doing wrong
or if there is a different approach I should be taking?

Any help would be greatly apprectaited.

Thanks,

Aaron

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On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 10:57, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 22:10, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:22:34PM +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 18:36, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Current rawhide in fact has wireframe resize (the setting is
> > > > called reduced_resources, set it to TRUE).
> > >
> > > I have done this (via gconf-editor), but it has no effect (even
> > > restarting metacity yielded nothing).
> > >
> > > It's metacity-2.5.3-2 BTW.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > It looks like Alex lost the patch when upgrading from 2.4 to 2.5, he
> > probably assumed that it was already in 2.5 upstream but it isn't.
> >
> > I'll have to put the patch back.
>
> "oops"

WORKSFORME now with metacity-2.5.3-3, kudos guys.

Nils
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[Nils Philippsen]

Hi,

Aaron: according to the recipients ("To:"), you sent this to rhl-list,
according to the other headers ("Received:") directly to me. You may
need to fix your Lotus notes settings.

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 21:23, [e-mail] wrote:
> I'm trying to install the 'metacity-2.4.55-6' or 'metacity-2.5.3-3' rpms on
> Red Hat 8.0 but they both have several dependancies:
>       error: Failed dependencies:
>       libXrandr.so.2 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
>       libstartup-notification-1.so.0 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
>       redhat-artwork >= 0.62 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
>
> Of coarse, when I try to install those packages, they in turn have
> dependencies and so on... could anyone please tell me what i'm doing wrong
> or if there is a different approach I should be taking?

You try to install Rawhide -- very much post-9 -- packages on 8.0. You
need at least Red Hat Linux 9, possibly with updates to fulfil the above
dependencies. It isn't "guaranteed" to work even on 9 -- it may do, but
it may also fail.

Nils

[Peter Backlund]

On Friday 12 September 2003 21.23, [e-mail] wrote:
> I'm trying to install the 'metacity-2.4.55-6' or 'metacity-2.5.3-3' rpms on
> Red Hat 8.0 but they both have several dependancies:
>       error: Failed dependencies:
>       libXrandr.so.2 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
>       libstartup-notification-1.so.0 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
>       redhat-artwork >= 0.62 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6

(All commands as root).

Get the src.rpm for metacity and run rpm -ivh on it. Open 
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/metacity.spec and change Requires: redhat-artwork >= 
0.62 to Requires: redhat-artwork. Then run rpmbuild -bb 
/usr/src/redhat/SPECS/metacity.spec. When (if) it finishes, run 
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/metacity-2.5.3-3.i386.rpm.

That _might_ work, but don't be suprised if it doesn't.

/Peter

[Alan]

On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 14:36, Peter Backlund wrote:
> On Friday 12 September 2003 21.23, [e-mail] wrote:
> > I'm trying to install the 'metacity-2.4.55-6' or 'metacity-2.5.3-3' rpms on
> > Red Hat 8.0 but they both have several dependancies:
> >       error: Failed dependencies:
> >       libXrandr.so.2 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
> >       libstartup-notification-1.so.0 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
> >       redhat-artwork >= 0.62 is needed by metacity-2.4.55-6
>
> (All commands as root).
>
> Get the src.rpm for metacity and run rpm -ivh on it. Open 
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/metacity.spec and change Requires: redhat-artwork >= 
> 0.62 to Requires: redhat-artwork. Then run rpmbuild -bb 
> /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/metacity.spec. When (if) it finishes, run 
> rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/metacity-2.5.3-3.i386.rpm.
>
> That _might_ work, but don't be suprised if it doesn't.

I am wondering what the source of th rpm he is trying to install. 
Sounds like it is for Redhat 9 or later.

Rebuilding might resolve the library dependancies. Might not.  Sounds
like the version of metacity he is trying to install wants XFree86
4.3.0.

Not certain when libstartup-notification started to be provided as well.
It is from the package "startup-notification".  (Like that is a
surprise...)