Re: New Debian user's reaction to X
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Radtke wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > In article <[🔎] 35C4655A.F6F26FBD@golgotha.net>, Randy Edwards
> > <redwards@golgotha.net> writes
> >
> > >Debian's X installation needed a
> > >*lot* of work.
> > Which one?
> > The text based one (xf86config) or the graphical one (XF86Setup)?
>
> Hello all,
>
> Since most half a year I am following any Debian list
> since I was using a Debian 1.3.1 dist. Difficulties
> came up immediately after having installed debians main
> packages and adding X packages for getting my X
> running. Nice dream I had. Bad reality reveals. It's
> one BIG problem installing any package; i.e. the
> netscape one: it required some engl. version 3.x of it.
> Problem: no more available. Finally i got it from
> anywhere out of hell... Then installation failed. Why ?
> I do not know this. But discussing with others we
> conluded that at least the dselect-'utility' isn't too
> strong in effectivity. (It seems to be a order problem
> even if checking dependencies) So now my answer to your
> question: Unfortunately it is obvious to me (and
> others) that beside the dselect-tool the x-tools need
> some help, too. It isn't too comfortable to be useful
> installing X, unfortunately.
So, concluding, this has nothing to do with installing the X-windows
system, but with the netscape application. I don't know where you got the
installer for netscape3 from, but there has been an installer for netscape4
for ages now.
Maarten
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