Re: minimum X packages?
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 11:19:07AM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote:
> > I recently upgraded to potato.
> >
> > Now X starts and immediately dies. Why would this be?
>
> This is (probably) a known bug in -9. Upgrade to -10.
>
> > What are the minimum packages necessary to run X under potato (or in general)?
>
> xfree86-common
> xlib6g
> xbase-clients
> xserver-common
> xserver-(svga, s3v, mach64, ? -- depends on your video card)
> xfonts-base
> xfonts-75dpi (depending on your X clients you *might* be able to scrape by
> without this one)
>
> You will probably want a window manager and a terminal emulator as well.
>
> Read the extended description of xfree86-common as well.
>
hi
why -10 insists on having tons of stuff installed i really
don't use?
like xfs, or rstart(d), or twm (is there any person alive who
uses twm?), or xmh, or xterm, or...
regards
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