Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of Installation/Fedora

Timestamp:

08/24/2011 12:11:48 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

MarcusWalther

Comment:

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Installation/Fedora

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 #!NewsFlash
 = Instructions apply to =
- - Fedora 15 '''not supported'''
+ - Fedora 15
  - Fedora 14
  - ~~Fedora 13~~
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 }}}
 
-Fedora offers no packages for !OpenMotif development ([http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/openmotif official announcement]). Suitable RPMs for Fedora 11 and 12 can be found at the [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/ Stanford university]. For Fedora 13 and 14 please use packages provided by [http://www.scientificlinux.org/ Scientific Linux 6] (alternatively use RHEL 6 sources). Depending on your architecture please download three packages ([http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors list of mirrors], go to {{{scientific/6x/i386/os/Packages/}}} or {{{scientific/6x/x86_64/os/Packages/}}}):
+Fedora offers no packages for !OpenMotif development ([http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/openmotif official announcement]). Suitable RPMs for Fedora 11 and 12 can be found at the [http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/ Stanford university]. For Fedora 13, 14 and 15 please use packages provided by [http://www.scientificlinux.org/ Scientific Linux 6] (alternatively use RHEL 6 sources). Depending on your architecture please download three packages ([http://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirrors list of mirrors], go to {{{scientific/6x/i386/os/Packages/}}} or {{{scientific/6x/x86_64/os/Packages/}}}):
 
  - openmotif
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  - openmotif22
 
-Install all RPMs using
+If you use Fedora 15 you have to install an additional package providing a dependency executable {{{/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB}}} (thanks to L. S. Lowe from Birmingham Particle Physics Group):
+
+{{{
+yum localinstall http://www.ep.ph.bham.ac.uk/general/support/fedora-xkeysymdb.rpm
+}}}
+
+Now install openmotif RPMs using
 {{{
 yum --nogpgcheck localinstall openmotif*.rpm
 }}}
 
-Now proceed with [wiki:Installation#Download download and installation] of SH/SHM.
-
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-Unfortunately this method doesn't work in Fedora 15. When installing the !OpenMotif packages the following dependency cannot be fulfilled:
-
-{{{
-Error: Package: openmotif-2.3.3-1.el6.i686 (/openmotif-2.3.3-1.el6.i686)
-           Requires: /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB
-Error: Package: openmotif22-2.2.3-19.el6.i686 (/openmotif22-2.2.3-19.el6.i686)
-           Requires: /usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB
-}}}
-
-{{{/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB}}} used to be included in the {{{libX11-common}}} package, but in Fedora 15 it's gone without alternative.
+Proceed with [wiki:Installation#Download download and installation] of SH/SHM.
 
 == Known issues ==