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Re: [SOLVED?] Re: synaptics Touchpad and x.org



Hi Frank,

> > I did as suggested. I downloaded the package and installed it with
> > dpkg -i --force-all xfree86-driver-synaptics
> > 
> > and it works fine. Thanks a lot for all your help!
> 
> I am not really sure, if one can call this "Solved", because now your dependency tree will be broken and you won't be able to use apt-get/aptitude until you remove xfree86-driver-synaptics, right? That's the situation here for me anyways.

Yes. This is true. There should be a package for xorg or this package
should depend on xfree or xorg.

Do you think this is bugworthy?

Greetings, Tobias

> 
> I don't quite understand, why "xfree86-driver-synaptics" has broken dependencies, maybe one of you can clarify this for me:
> In Aptitude it says something like (freely translated ;-)):
> 
> "Some dependencies of xfree86-driver-synaptics are not met:
> It depends on xserver-xfree86 (>4.1.0) (provided by xserver-xfree86-dbg 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14, xserver-xorg 6.8.2-7debian1-2)"
> 
> where the latter one is bold (meaning it is installed). Now why does it call this a broken dependency?
> 
> I'd be glad to somehow really solve this, because I am not able to install/update anything with apt right now.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Frank
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