Dislin breaks 37 libraries on Fedora 8

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* Joseph Thames wrote, On 03/19/2008 06:43 PM:
> 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.
> 

It seems you've picked i386 rpm, rather than the i586 one:
http://www.mps.mpg.de/dislin/linux.html
http://www.mps.mpg.de/dislin/linux_i386.html