[CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

Fri Aug 28 09:18:22 UTC 2009
RedShift <redshift at pandora.be>

Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> 
> Yes, I changed the variable in the spec and installed the RPM I built. 
> I am on a 64-bit machine but did not install a 32-bit RPM.
> 
> Looks like there are two versions.. the original and mine.  What should 
> I do?
> 
> Requested output:
> 
> [rpug at localhost ~]$ rpm -qi freetype
> Name        : freetype                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 2.2.1                             Vendor: CentOS
> Release     : 21.el5_3                      Build Date: Fri 22 May 2009 
> 10:04:13 AM EDT
> Install Date: Thu 27 Aug 2009 01:06:54 PM EDT      Build Host: 
> builder16.centos.org
> Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: 
> freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.src.rpm
> Size        : 626801                           License: BSD/GPL dual license
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Fri 22 May 2009 05:22:59 PM EDT, Key ID 
> a8a447dce8562897
> URL         : http://www.freetype.org
> Summary     : A free and portable font rendering engine
> Description :
> The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering
> engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of
> platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and
> manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render
> individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete
> text-rendering library.
> Name        : freetype                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 2.2.1                             Vendor: (none)
> Release     : 20                            Build Date: Thu 27 Aug 2009 
> 04:24:21 PM EDT
> Install Date: Thu 27 Aug 2009 04:25:44 PM EDT      Build Host: 
> localhost.localdomain
> Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: 
> freetype-2.2.1-20.src.rpm
> Size        : 655297                           License: BSD/GPL dual license
> Signature   : (none)
> Packager    : Pugatch Ryan
> URL         : http://www.freetype.org
> Summary     : A free and portable font rendering engine
> Description :
> The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering
> engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of
> platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and
> manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render
> individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete
> text-rendering library.
> 
> 


Why do you have two freetypes installed? That shouldn't be possible. They should have conflicting files. Fix this first.


Glenn