Re: first XFree86 packages availabl

[Tony Hoyle <tmh@nodomain.org>]

I've been struggling with this for a couple of days, and really can't 
work out how to install these X packages...

There appear to be a bunch of circular conflicts, that are unresolvable 
(apt tries to resolve them by uninstalling xbase-clients which isn't 
particularly useful).

I've got both alioth and the expermimental debian archive in my 
sources.list (for xlibs 4.3.0 and some others).

Attempting to install xlibs gives:

  xlibs: Depends: xlibs-data (= 4.3.0-0pre1v3) but 4.3.0-0pre1v3.lib642 
is to be installed

xlibs depends on xlibs-data, so I try to force that and get:

 xlib64s: Depends: xlibs-data (= 4.3.0-0pre1v3.lib642) but 
4.3.0-0pre1v3 is to be installed

So I either have to remove xlibs, breaking all the 32bit software, or 
xlib64s, breaking all the 64bit software.

I try to go back to the 32bit xbase-clients, and end up in the same 
circle with xlibs-data which can't be installed.

I tried forcing it all but then it breaks apt completely because it 
won't do anything until I resolve the conflict.

From the feedback it seems some people have managed this... what's the 
magic install order to get it to work?

Tony