#293 Installing on RHEL

[Charles Burkitt]

Please can you help. I'm struggling to understand how to install xfe on RHEL. I have read several guides which say that it's available via the dnf command, but it doesn't seem to be. There is no rpm package. I have not used the make command before—does this mean I will not be able to use xfe until I learn it? Thank you.

[Roland Baudin]

I think there are Xfe rpm packages in Fedora. So, you can probably install such a package in RHEL.

Here you can get some packages to try: https://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=xfe

[Charles Burkitt]

Thanks for responding. I tried to install that package but I'm missing a lot of the dependencies and can't find them for Fedora/RHEL, so I think I will admit defeat. Thanks anyway.

[Roland Baudin]

What version of RHEL do you have?

[Charles Burkitt]

RHEL 8, fully updated. Missing libFOX, which I think I found in a Fedora repo, but also missing some libc requirements.

[Charles Burkitt]

$ sudo dnf install xfe-1.46.1-2.fc41.x86_64.rpm
Error:
Problem: conflicting requests

• nothing provides libFOX-1.6.so.0()(64bit) needed by xfe-1.46.1-2.fc41.x86_64
• nothing provides libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.33)(64bit) needed by xfe-1.46.1-2.fc41.x86_64
• nothing provides libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.34)(64bit) needed by xfe-1.46.1-2.fc41.x86_64
• nothing provides libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.38)(64bit) needed by xfe-1.46.1-2.fc41.x86_64
• nothing provides libc.so.6(GLIBC_ABI_DT_RELR)(64bit) needed by xfe-1.46.1-2.fc41.x86_64
• nothing provides libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.29)(64bit) needed by xfe-1.46.1-2.fc41.x86_64
• nothing provides libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.30)(64bit) needed by xfe-1.46.1-2.fc41.x86_64

[Charles Burkitt]

I see the problem. RHEL 8 has glibc v2.28, which is not recent enough.

[Roland Baudin]

Yes, that's rather old. I've read that RHEL 8 is compatible with Fedora 28 packages. But the version of Xfe in Fedora 28 is rather old too. I think it's Xfe 1.42.

[Charles Burkitt]

Success! I found the Fedora archives, went to Fedora 28 and downloaded the packages for libFOX and Xfe. They both installed without a problem.

Thank you for your help.

[Roland Baudin]

Nice! Well done...

[Roland Baudin]

Hi Charles, I released yesterday a new version (2.0). There is now an installer xfe-install-linux-amd64.run that you can use to install Xfe without dependencies.

First, remove the old Xfe installed package if you have one. Then do:

chmod +x xfe-install-linux-amd64.run

and as root:

./xfe-install-linux-amd64.run

This will install Xfe in /usr/local on your system. No need of FOX or other dependencies, they are provided by the installer.

[Charles Burkitt]

That's great! I will do this.
Many thanks for letting me know.
C