Re: First-time Linux setup - questions
Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
>
> At 10:26 PM 11/10/98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >Jerry E. McGoveran wrote:
> >> Ah Ha! So, the usual package dependancies that apt takes care of
> >> is not applicable to X? (startx is not found on my system, and I never
> >> ran any configuration utility for X and I loaded the olvwm package with
> >> apt-get.)
> >
> >
> > More likely: There has been a major change in the way X11 is packaged
> >for Debian; this has introduced a few problems. Go thru the x11 section
> >in dselect and familiarize yourself with the new packages. The
> >'xserver-common' package has the startx command.
>
> Tried to find xserver-common with dselect and with apt-get, but was unable
> to locate it. Loaded instead xserver-vga16. Afterwards ran XF86Setup and
> got this:
>
> maui:/usr/X11R6/bin# export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
> maui:/usr/X11R6/bin# which XF86Setup
> /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup
> maui:/usr/X11R6/bin# XF86Setup
> Couldn't read card database file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards
>
> What now?
>
If you can't find xserver-common, then maybe we're not on the same
page. Are updating from slink? Could you have perhaps mixed old and
new X11 packages together?
--
Ed C.
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