Re: libxft-dev problem

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ken Bloom wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 13:10:10 +0100, quirin wrote:
>
>
> > felix: did you have any trouble with that so far? 
> >
> >
> > > On Saturday 13. March 2004 12:03, Felix C. Stegerman wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > I managed to get it installed properly by doing this:
> > > # dpkg --ignore-depends=libxft-dev -r libxft-dev
> > > # apt-get install -f
> >
> > i still hope that branden robinson, who opened up a bug ticket 
> > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/debian-x-200403/msg00833.html), will 
> > come up with a solution to that problem pretty soon. but so far nothing has 
> > really moved on those list concerning this issue. 
>
>
> Follow the bug ticket http://bugs.debian.org/237509, not the mailing list
> thread. Each entry to the bug ticket will become its own mailing list
> thread, because of the way the two interact.

Where it says:

If you move (or remove) /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h and
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft to /tmp/, you can do apt-get -f install
to finally upgrade this package.

Hope that help someone for waiting.

Hugo.