X11/Xlib.h missing

Jani Tiainen redetin@luukku.com
Fri Nov 12 22:41:00 GMT 2004


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:13:34AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:27:51AM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote:
>>
>>>I tried to install development headers (xorg-x11-devel, version 
>>>6.8.1.0-1). When I selected package I only get "nothing to be installed" 
>>>message. No headers, nothing. Package itself is downloaded to setup 
>>>directory.
>>
>>I repackaged some of the X .tar.bz2 yesterday to potentially work around
>>a problem installing.  The options that I used to tar confused setup.exe
>>into thinking that the packages were empty.
>>
>>So, this is consistent with the symptoms of trying to install one of
>>those packages.  This should be rectified soon as the new versions of
>>the tar files make it out to all of the mirrors.
>>
>>So, the solution is "try again".
> 
> 
> Just one more bit of data: I rectified the problem at ~12:30AM EST
> 2004-10-11 so the new packages should be on most mirrors soon if they
> are not there already.
> 
> Apologies for the inconvenience I caused.

You should be whipped for a such a (un)practical joke. =)

Well good to know that I wasn't imaging since there is lot new to learn 
with XP and SP2.. But now everything... seems to work.

-- 

Jani Tiainen



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