freetype2

[Dave Smith]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:08:31 +0200, François Patte wrote:

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> Bonjour,
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> What is freetype2? I'm fighting with this on google and mostly find
> freetype-2
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> I found some freetype2 rpm from Suse but when I tried to install there
> was a conflict with  /usr/lib64/libfreetype.so.6.3.10 coming from
> package freetype-2.2.1-16.fc6.x86_64
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> I need these package (freetype2 and freetype2-devel) to rebuild
> xdvipdfmx and install xetex on my system....
> 
> Is there a typo in  xdvipdfmx-0.3.spec or freetype2* is really different
> from freetype-2*
> 
> Thank you.


Have you tried just doing

yum install freetype freetype-devel

If you are using a graphical desktop then you probably have freetype 
install and you are just missing freetype-devel.

Don't try and install versions from any other distribution....