Can't install. update, freshen or remove RPM

[stevenriz]

This isn't urgent, I may just reinstall Fedora with the needed packages. But.... I am trying to connect to X Windows on a Fedora server to install Oracle 10g and receive these errors which tell me something is wrong with X Windows.....

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2005-07-13_09-19-34AM. Please wait ...[oracle@fedora1 Disk1]$ Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2005-07-13_09-19-34AM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA

So I look for the package and find it...
[root@fedora1 Apps]# rpm -q xorg-x11-xfs
xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12

Then I try to Update it... Says it is already installed...
[root@fedora1 Apps]# rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm
warning: xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12 is already installed
[root@fedora1 Apps]#

Then I try to remove it to maybe install a newer one....
[root@fedora1 Apps]# rpm -ev xorg-x11-xfs
error: Failed dependencies:
xfs is needed by (installed) chkfontpath-1.10.0-2.i386
[root@fedora1 Apps]#

And I am now it a vicious cycle where each package is dependent on another so what do you suggest I do? I am definately gonig to reinstall the OS, I am just confused as to why this isn't working. Thanks!
Steve

 

[lgarner]

Try the --force option to rpm.

 

[jstreich]

Unfortunatly I've seen this before-- a number of times. The --force should work.. The other option is to stop using rpm, and move to apt... Then again, I like debian.

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[stevenriz]

Well I didn't try the force option yet. I did go ahead and reinstall Fedora with all necessady options and I am still having the same problem. I don't think it is X Windows problem because I can get xclock to work just fine. HEre is the error I get by running ./runInstaller any clues here??
Thanks!
Steve

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error
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All installer requirements met.

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2005-07-13_03-05-37PM. Please wait ...[oracle@fedora1 Disk1]$ Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /tmp/OraInstall2005-07-13_03-05-37PM/jre/1.4.2/lib/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1560)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1477)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:788)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:834)
at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.awt.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraries(NativeLibLoader.java:38)
at sun.awt.DebugHelper.<clinit>(DebugHelper.java:29)
at java.awt.Component.<clinit>(Component.java:506)

 

[plamb]

libXp.so.6 is missing you need to load xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm, I had this happen to me for some other prgrams

 

[stevenriz]

Thank you that worked like a charm!!!
Steve