oops I broke X

I run RH8. I got the new Gnome 2.2 rpms for RH8 from a LinuxFormat magazine.

I tried to install the rpms with little success due to dependencies. So I decided to force the issue.

Ran rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm

Installed OK. Rebooted X server. Nothing happened just mouse pointer (X).

So restarted PC.
Message states X respawning too fast disabled for 5 mins.

Logged in manually and started X
got following error

file libXrandr.so.2 cannot be found.

Ooops! Any ideas howto fix it!

Otherwise will wait for RH9 or maybe try the new mandrake as a friend is running that and it looks pretty good. Also has urpmi gui for software updating.

Oooh... dependencies often have reasons. Best option I can think of is reinstalling the original Gnome RPMs from the RedHat CDs. Try creating a file list of the RPMs to be installed, like this, having the LinuxFormat CD inserted:

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ls /mnt/cdrom/path/to/files/*.rpm | sed 's/[0-9.-]*\.i386\.rpm$//' >~/rpmlist

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Then "mkdir /tmp/rpms", insert the RedHat installation CDs, one in turn, and run this for each one (mount and unmount yourself as you see fit):

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for file in `cat ~/rpmlist`; do path=`ls /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/* | grep "$file"'[0-9.-]*\.i386\.rpm'`; if [ -e $path ]; then echo $file; cp $path /tmp/rpms; fi; done

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That should also give you a list of RPMs copied from each CD.
When all is done, go to /tmp/rpms and do this:

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rpm -Uhv --nodeps --force *.rpm

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Note! I don't know if this will work or anything, it's just the best I can think of.