Re: X11 Installation
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> > That solution will certainly not work like you say it. First libc6 would
> > have to be installed. Before that, libc5 would have to be upgraded to
> > 'unstable'. And before that, lsdo would have to be upgraded to 'unstable'.
> > Also, locales would have to be upgraded and localebin and wg15-locale
> > would have to be removed. And all *-dev packages would have to be removed
> > and replaced by the ones from 'unstable'. And it would become tricky to
> > build libc5-based programs.
>
> No-no!
>
> I already explained in my next mail that I meant to install xserver-*.deb
> packages from bo, NOT hamm! And overwrite one binary downlodaed from
> ftp.xfree86.org, again compiled against libc5.
Well, that is about the same as I said in the part of my message you chose
to cut away :-)
Still, what I meant to say is that it is not worth the trouble to upgrade
to unstable just to use the newest X Server.
Remco
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