Re: Slink broke after upgrade (Thank's it's working!)
On 17-Nov-98 Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Mario Bertrand wrote:
>>
>>
>> > With my experience, I don't believe the latest X11 stuff in slink is
>> > broken anymore, but its been broken down into a bunch of smaller debs.
>> > I scrubbed my system free of all the old X11 stuff (except config files)
>> > and loaded the slink X11 suff, and everything is now working.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ed C.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> Hi,
>>
>> What do you mean by old X11 stuff? How do we know wich packages to delete?
>> It
>> is those obsoletes packages in dselect menu when we update?
>>
>
>
> The old X11 packaging included a 2meg 'xbase' deb file. This package
> has been split into smaller packages. xterm, for example, is in its own
> package. The font packages changed their name to 'xfonts-###' instead
> of 'xfnt###'.
> When I originally went to dselect after the download, the new X11
> packages were at the top of the display in the new packages section.
> This was how I could tell them apart from the ones already installed
> (plus the version number). Since there didn't seem to be any dependency
> conflicts, ie, 'xfntbase' didn't conflict with 'xfonts-base'*, I decided
> to scroll down and purge my system of all the old packages that I could,
> except for the /etc/X11 config files. This probably wasn't necessary.
> I don't know if they will show up in the obsolete section, I never
> checked this. I suspect dpkg would have deleted the old ones first.
>
>
> * A dependency conflict should of happened according to the package
> info (Conflicts: xfntbase), but I seem to remember dselect allowing me
> to select the new files without popping up a dependency conflict
> screen. My memory has deteriorated, however, so I may be remembering
> wrong.
>
>
> --
> Ed C.
>
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Thanks Ed,
I have an almost working slink. At least I have Xwindows working
properly for the moment :-). Let's have a bit of sleep now...
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Message envoyé le 16-Nov-98 à 23:27:30
Par Mario Bertrand <mbert@cam.org>
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