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virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

[SOLVED] issue caused by "missing libdmx dependency" error message

Hi all,
I tried to figure out why I am getting this error message everytime I try to install almost any package.
I read many people are having problem, maybe because something changed in xorg and I think i noticed this message too late

I am now unable to proceed.
Can you help me please?

i.e. I was trying to update dropbox nautilus extension via yaourt but i am getting this message:

ackages (1) nautilus-dropbox-2019.02.14-4

Total Installed Size:  0.11 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                     [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                   [######################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                        [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                [######################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) upgrading nautilus-dropbox                   [######################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/2) Updating icon theme caches...
error: missing 'libdmx' dependency for 'xorg-server-xdmx'

I tried to follow this posti installing the dev package (and not the notty, since it was the highest voted).
I got a missing key error, added it and then obtained this:

 un-time dependency gl found: NO 

glx/meson.build:35:4: ERROR: Invalid version of dependency, need 'gl' ['>= 9.2.0'] found '1.2'.

A full log can be found at /tmp/yaourt-tmp-virus/aur-xorg-server-xdmx-dev/src/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build xorg-server-dev.

Can you please help me solving this issue?

Thanks in advance

Last edited by virusso80 (2020-03-08 19:36:14)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: [SOLVED] issue caused by "missing libdmx dependency" error message

Why are you using xorg-xdmx in the first place and not the repository xorg version?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,859

Re: [SOLVED] issue caused by "missing libdmx dependency" error message

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=252376
Please also flag https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorg … -xdmx-dev/ as out of date

virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: [SOLVED] issue caused by "missing libdmx dependency" error message

Why are you using xorg-xdmx in the first place and not the repository xorg version?

i don't know...i was simply installing the package using yaourt...

Please also flag https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xorg … -xdmx-dev/ as out of date

done

See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=252376

Ok, trying to pedantly follow everything I executed the -Qs command and I obtained the following:

$ pacman -Qs xorg-server
local/xorg-server 1.20.7-1 (xorg)
    Xorg X server
local/xorg-server-common 1.20.7-1 (xorg)
    Xorg server common files
local/xorg-server-devel 1.20.7-1 (xorg)
    Development files for the X.Org X server
[b]local/xorg-server-xdmx 1.20.6-1 (xorg)[/b]
    Distributed Multihead X Server and utilities
local/xorg-server-xephyr 1.20.7-1 (xorg)
    A nested X server that runs as an X application
local/xorg-server-xnest 1.20.7-1 (xorg)
    A nested X server that runs as an X application
local/xorg-server-xvfb 1.20.7-1 (xorg)
    Virtual framebuffer X server
local/xorg-server-xwayland 1.20.7-1 (xorg)
    run X clients under wayland

it seems it is already installed, but the dependency library is missing.

Should I proceed?

# pacman -Rdd libdmx libxxf86dga libxxf86misc
error: target not found: libxxf86dga
error: target not found: libxxf86misc

# pacman -Rdd libdmx

Packages (1) libdmx-1.1.4-2

Total Removed Size:  0.05 MiB

:: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] 

Thanks

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,104

Re: [SOLVED] issue caused by "missing libdmx dependency" error message

You should not use AUR helpers if you are that unaware of what it implies. Read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository in it's entirety for a few times.

Proceed with that command, remove xorg-server-dmx and do a

sudo pacman -Syu xorg-server

to get the repository version.

virusso80

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-09

Posts: 325

Re: [SOLVED] issue caused by "missing libdmx dependency" error message

Thanks.
trying to update now.

It seems to be fixed

Last edited by virusso80 (2020-03-08 19:35:50)