X11-devel for Redhat Enterprise 5

[kim333]

My problem is simple. The solution, it appears, is not so I could use some help.

I need X11-devel on my system and so far I have had no luck finding a working version to install. I've been lost in dependencies for a week. Has anyone had any luck installing X11-devel on a Redhat system?

Or are there any alternatives? My final goal is to install a data analysis/graphing software, but they all require X11-devel (I've tried 5 of them and I am down to the unacceptable choices).

[Rubberman]

I've never had this problem. Please post the output of the command: yum install libX11-devel

Also, there are a lot of aspects to X11 development work. There are the base X11 libraries & headers, Xt (X toolkit), Motif, etc. So, what type of X11 programming do you need to do? Have you ever done X11 programming before?

[kim333]

The result of yum install libX11-devel is
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package libX11-devel available.
Nothing to do

I am not doing any development work, I am just a user (and a poor one at that). What I want to install is a graphing/data analysis software and most of them complain about X11. For instance, lesstif (needed by xmgrace) gives me the following missing dependencies:
Missing Dependency: devel(libfontconfig) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libXext) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libXp) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libexpat) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libSM) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libXt) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libdl) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libz) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libfreetype) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libXft) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libICE) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libX11) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)
Missing Dependency: devel(libXrender) is needed by package lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586 (/root/temp/lesstif/lesstif-0.95.0-1.i586.rpm)

Most graphing softwares I've tried complain about X11 missing something or the other and I traced it through online searches to the need to have libX11-devel installed. I could be wrong.

I tried installing libX11-devel from source files (from a couple different sources) and the ./configure script fails with the following:
checking for XPROTO... configure: error: Package requirements (xproto) were not met:

No package 'xproto' found

Not to be discouraged, I looked for an xproto package and tried installing that. I am not sure it installed anything, the only xproto* file I find anew on my system after a quick installation is
./usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/xproto.pc.

And when I try installing libX11 again, it still finds things missing:
checking for X11... configure: error: Package requirements (xproto >= 7.0.13 xextproto xtrans xcb >= 1.1.92 kbproto inputproto) were not met:

No package 'xproto' found
No package 'xextproto' found
No package 'xtrans' found
No package 'xcb' found
No package 'kbproto' found
No package 'inputproto' found

And that's where I am.

[Rubberman]

The message is indicating that the system is not currently under Red Hat support, so you can't get the updates. You can, however, change your yum repositories so that you get them from CentOS or one of the other direct RHEL distributions, such as Scientific Linux. CentOS is, for commercial/professional use, the most popular. Scientific Linux is primarily used by the major research labs such as CERN, FermiLab, Argonne National Lab, et al.

[kim333]

How do I change my yum repository?

[Rubberman]

How do I change my yum repository?

Go to the /etc/yum.repos.d directory. You should see a number of files ending in .repo. Please post the list here.

[Rubberman]

I will be posting a number of compressed tarballs here for you to install also. These will include the appropriate PGP keys for CentOS and related servers, as well as the required repo files for you. Make sure you back up all of /etc before you install anything I send you, just in case. I haven't tried this before, but it should work ok. FWIW, if any other lurkers out there have a simpler way to switch yum repository sets from RHEL to CentOS (or whatever), please feel free to post here.

[kim333]

Go to the /etc/yum.repos.d directory. You should see a number of files ending in .repo. Please post the list here.

Just one file there:
rhel-debuginfo.repo