Re: after moving to xf 3.3.6 - blackbox etc no longer work.
Oh, that could be a problem, I didnt get it from debian, I download it
from xfree86.org . Do you think I will have to reinstall the whole system
to use 3.3.6 ? that would be a nightmare, meaning I have to start from
scratch again?
Any more light?
thank you
Ben
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Do the Debian 3.3.6 packages in potato work? You might have to upgrade your
> whole system to get them, but potato's almost stable anyway... (Or are there
> specific reasons you don't want to do that?)
>
> My guess is that you installed the new binaries on top of the old, but some old
> config files got left behind, or there are some Debian-specific things which you
> need to get 3.3.6 to look in the right paths for window managers etc.
>
> For things as big and complex as X, glibc, gcc, etc., it's generally best to
> either get the Debian binary packages, or if that's no good for one reason or
> another, build from debian source packages, e.g.:
>
> apt-get source xfree86
> cd xfree86-(version, etc.)
> debian/rules binary
>
> (Note, on my one xfree86 build, it required well over 1 GB! I can't say for
> sure whether 3.3.6 in potato will build on slink...)
>
> Zeen,
>
> -Adam P.
>
>
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