Re: Problems with xserver-xorg

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 16:12:15 +0000, Carlos Morales Diego wrote:
> Before typing LC_ALL=C apt-get install xserver-xorg-core I wrote
> apt-cache policy xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core x11-common and the
> output was this one:  
>
> xserver-xorg: 
>     Installed:(none)
>     Candidate:(none)
>    Version Table:
> xserver-xorg-core:
>    Installed:(none)
>    Candidate: 2:1.1.1-21etch5
>    Version Table:
>      2:1.1.1-21etch5 0
>      500 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
>  x11-common:
>     Installed:(none)
>     Candidate:(none)
>    Version Table: 
> 
> 
> What do I do now?. Thanks

It seems that you only have the security server in your sources.list.
You have to edit the file

/etc/apt/sources.list

and add a line like this:

deb http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ etch main

You can change the "es" part if you want to use a mirror in another
country. You can find a list of mirrors here:
http://www.debian.org/mirror/

After you have changed /etc/apt/sources.list, run "apt-get update" and
then it should be possible for you to install xorg.

P.S. If you also want "non-free" packages then the line in sources.list
should be like this:

deb http://ftp.se.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib

For more information run "man sources.list".

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