When doing "rpm -ivh <url to xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi> " there 
does't seem to be another uri pointing to another rpm that will satisfy 
the dependency that i can add to the command line.

but then we aren't using yum

Faye

On 27/04/10 13:29, Matthias Schroeder wrote:
> Faye Gibbins wrote:
>> We're using xorg-x11-font-utils-7.1-2 on SL5.4 and I've noticed that
>> the header for the rpm says it requires "mkfontdir". Should that not
>> be either '/usr/bin/mkfontdir' or 'xorg-x11-font-utils'?
>>
>> Just having 'mkfontdir' seems to break things when using "rpm" to
>> install the package".
>
> What do you mean by 'sees to break things'? Without any knowledge what
> goes wrong we can only speculate what the issue might be. I assume you
> know that rpm does nothing to resolve the requirements...
>
> Matthias
>
>>
>> Faye
>>
>


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