Fabian,

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Fabian Braennstroem wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just install SL and try to adjust everything just like my
> archlinux-setup.
> 
> For that I am missing some packages or I would like to
> upgrade some :-) 
> 
> I tried to set up the other repos which worked except the
> linux-ink makes problems; I don't understand/read russian,
> so I don't know what I have to write into the sources-list
> for apt.

Use yum it is easier.

> 
> For the missing packages I would try to get other (Suse or
> Fedora) rpm-source packages and run them under SL. Would
> that be enought? Actually I am missing the newsreader slrn,
> w3m and some emacs packages like auctex and preview-latex.
> 
> Furthermore I would like to upgrade some packages like
> mutt and vim. I suppose I just have to  change the src.rpm
> files!?
> 
> Another small problems makes the installation of the
> windowmanager wmii. There does not exist a rpm and I tried
> to install it by hand. Unfortunately it complains about
> missing 'X11/Xlib.h'. This should be in some package!?

A 

yum provides X11/Xlib.h 

shows

xorg-x11-devel                      6.8.2-1.EL.13.6        sl-base
Matched from:
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h

So a 

yum install xorg-x11-devel

should install it.

> 
> Maybe, anybody of you have any ideas about solving these
> issues!? 
> 
> Thanks and best Greetings!
> Fabian
> 
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> 

-Connie Sieh