On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 06:53, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > > > If it does want the 32-bit version it shouldn't hurt anything > > to install it with: > > yum install xorg-x11-libs.i386 > > I needed that for VMware server recently and posted here about > > a conflict with fontconfig from the 64-bit version. I think > > that's a bug but someone responded with a workaround: > > > > rpm -e --justdb --nodeps fontconfig > > which is very very wrong, and if you really care about this, dont do it. > find the solution to the problem, rather than just using a hammer to > break your system even more. > > which in the case of the vmware-server, is to remove fontconfig.x86_64 > and install fontconfig.i386 manually. The rest of your install will work > then. The solution is to not have conflicting packages in the repositories. How do we arrange that? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com