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Re: Xfree86 4.2.1 & sources.list



Jan Lentfer [Jan.Lentfer@web.de] wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was trying to install 4.2.1 XFree86 Packages from 
> http://people.debian.org/~falk/xfree86-4.2.1-3_alpha/ because I read
> somewhere support for 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 is far more stable on 4.2 than
> it is on 4.1.
> I added this to my sources.list
> deb http://people.debian.org/~falk/xfree86-4.2.1-3_alpha ./

That is not a debian repository, it is just a website, so you shouldn't
add it to your sources.list.

Just download the packages manually and then install them with dpkg.
You might want to use a recursive web-get tool like 'wget -r'.  (I have
done this too...)

Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics]

    "You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the
    freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman

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