Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  8 Jun, rathon wrote about "Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ] ]]"
> I looked under /usr/X11R6/bin and there is no startx there..
> 
> I had installed all the base packages. How can I tell if I have xbase-clients
> package installed? If I do not have it, how do I install it from my CD.
> 
> % dpkg -i ???.deb
> 

dpkg -s <package_name>
or
dpkg -l <package_name>
or
dselect

will tell you if it is installed.

If it is not then you can either use dselect to access the cd-rom and
select the package for install or you can use

dpkg -i <package_file>.deb 

to install it.


> 
> 
> Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu> wrote:
> *- On  8 Jun, rathon wrote about "Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: deb pkg of X-server for
> Matrox Millennium G200 AGP] ] ]"
>> Finally resolved all the dependencies and ran xf86config. It wrote out
>> the file in /etc/X11/XF86Config and that looks ok too.
>> 
>> When I do, % startx, I get the error:
>> bash: startx:command not found
>> 
> 
> Do you have the xbase-clients package installed?  startx resides is
> that package.
> 
> 

-- 
Brian 
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