RE: dpkg one Debian package possible.
On 16-Mar-2000 Benjamin F. Zhou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since X from Debian didnt work on my notebook, I decide to go XFree86
> 4.0 and downloaded from xfree86.org . But I am afraid that the
> installation will not get registered
> in the dpkg database. Also the X docu urged users to use Xinstall.sh in
> the XF86 4.0 package instead of other installation utility like dpkg.
>
> Is there a way to tell dpkg database directly what I have installed
> afterward?
>
no safe and sane way. XFree 4.0 will be packaged in the next 1 - 3 months.
Until then, you will have to live without X packages from Debian. Of course, I
fail to believe that Xfree 4.0 works and X 3.3 does not, the driver support in
X 4.0 is much smaller.
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