The problem was Incompatible libXext in amd64 FC3 with mplayer. It is not missing X11. the subject is misleading. After some investigation, I confirmed that. Let me thank Alexander again for his reply. I found out the issue from the following investigation: Do a YUM update with my FC3 installation, I got more than 300 packages + all xorg-x11 amd64 rpm packages. I also noticed the packages including non 64bit version - i386. YUM did an installation at the end with a completion station. After the installation, I started to re-do .cofigure. I got the same error: "Incompatible Xext lib". The Xext was newly compiled at Nov 20th, lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 20 23:02 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so -> libXext.so.6.4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Nov 20 23:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 -> libXext.so.6.4 I went to my P4 stations, where I got a copy of FC3, did the installation of mplayer. the configure has not issue and the installation went well. Well now I could only watch my famous movie "mansfield park" at my P4 4xAGP station, but not at my amd64 8xAGP station.... :( regards, kockkin ko ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:55:53 +0100 Subject: Re: missing X11 when configuring mplayer To: kockkin ko <kockkinko@xxxxxxxxx> Am Sa, den 20.11.2004 schrieb kockkin ko um 7:46: > I found the xorg-x11-devel package in my FC3 installation. (Please see > below at the bottom of this email for the detail of rpm -qi > xorg-x11-devel. ) > Looking at the issue more closely, I found the error statement > emphasing incompatable libXext.so in configure.log for configureing > mplayer. Looking in /usr/X11R6/lib, the libXext.so was there. (Please > see below at the bottom of this email for the details of these files) > > Here comes my questions: > My first question is why not compatible? > I could not find any package titled xorg-x11-Xext... in the update > archive: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/x86_64/ The .so files, only needed at compile time, are (nearly) always in the -devel package. Did you install both the i386 and the x88_64 (32bit and 64bit) RPMs? > My next question where to find this package that generate libXext? Answered: the devel RPMs hold these files. > Looking at both the reply of rpm -qi on the xorg-x11 and > xorg-x11-devel, I found the installated rpm packages was not of amd64 > versions. At least the version number in the reply of rpm -qi did not > show amd64. (please see below the rpm -qi reply) That may be the problem. > My third question is that I am having an amd64 box, does it mean I > need to reload all relevant xorg amd64 packages? should they be > xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.x86_64.rpm? and > xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.x86_64.rpm? These x86_64 package should have been installed during installation of 64bit FC3. > My fourth question is that why did FC3 installation disks of amd64 not > install the correct version of X11 in my amd64 box? Can't say, I don't run a 64bit system. Btw. there is an own mailing list for this platform. > kockkin ko Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp Serendipity 17:48:03 up 12:35, 16 users, 0.68, 0.26, 0.14
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