On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 11:43:12PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > 4. I still had some minor issues with X but they were much easier to deal > with. > > First: It appears that wdm was removed, and xdm was installed in its > place. While I'm not certain that wdm was installed during the > potato install, (I did a "simple" install) but I'm sure I > removed xdm after the potato install. I don't know why wdm would be removed, given the current package relationships in woody. apt's problem resolver output might be helpful here. > Second: For obvious reasons, xserver-svga is upgraded, but > xserver-xfree86 is not installed. This is expected and easy to > deal with. Indeed; I strongly recommend the x-window-system package to anyone who lacks the time or inclination to understand the details of Debian's packaging of the X Window System. > Suggest: If you have X and want to use wdm instead of xdm (your choices > here may vary) and upgrade to the xfree86 server, do: > > apt-get remove xdm > apt-get install wdm xserver-xfree86 Removing xdm is unnecessary. All 4 display managers coexist peacefully in woody. A debconf question decides which one manages :0. > Debconf does a sterling job of constructing a working config file, and all > the dependencies are met by the newly installed apt/dpkg. That's good to hear. -- G. Branden Robinson | Never attribute to malice that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be adequately explained branden@debian.org | by stupidity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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