Dislin breaks 37 libraries on Fedora 8

[Chris]

Joseph Thames wrote:
> Yesterday I installed the Dislin-9.2-1 Linux rpm along with openmotif
> 2.2.3.10.fc4.2 and xorg-X11-libs 6.8.1-12.fc3.1, which it requires.  When I
> tried to link it, I got a message that libXm.so.3 was missing. This should
> have been installed with openmotif, but apparently wasn't.
> 
> In trying to resolve this issue, I brought up the Synaptic package manager,
> and it said that 37 packages had been broken. To fix the broken packages, it
> wanted to remove the 3 packages I just installed. The broken packages are:
> 
> libdmx, libfontenc, libICE, libSM, libX11, llibXau, libXaw, libXcomposite,
> libXcursor, libXdamage, libXdmcp, libXevie, libXext, libXfixes, libXfont,
> libXfontcache, libXft, libxi, libxi, libXinerama, libXinerama, libxkbfile,
> libXmu, libXpm, libXandr, libXrender, libXres, libXScmSaver, libXt,
> libXTrap, libxtst, libXv, libXvMC, libXxf86dga, libXxf86misc, libXxf86vm,
> mesa-libGL,  and mesa-libGLU
> 
> This is a big show-stopper for me. I am in the process of porting a major
> application system from SUSE 9.0 and G77 to Fedora 8 and Gfortran. I am not
> interested in all the new features that these broken libraries support
> (whatever they are). I just want to be able to demo this application to my
> client in 3 weeks.
> 
> Please advise a course of action.
> 

Is it me or... I dunno, if you are using Fedora 8, what makes you think 
installing OpenMotif (FC4) and Xorg libs from FC3 are not going to break 
things?

I'm not a coder by all means however, a little common sense tells me 
there will be issues.

Just my uneducated 2 bits worth.

Regards,
Chris