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Re: Trouble with xf86setup



The installation docs say to not install X until
you have installed the base system.  Could that be
the problem?

On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Steve George wrote:

> Hi Teofil,
> 
> As someone has already said it looks like you don't have the right  packages installed in order to get the X Windows System running.  The xinitrc file which is at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is used to read in default settings for the X session so it's essential.  According to my system, which is the stable branch, this file is part of the "xbase-clients" so you need to install that.  My guess is that further back in the install process you have made some choices that have stopped all the required packages for X being installed - I think the install asks you about being a client server which is a bit confusing for new users as it is backwards!   
> 
> You can try going back and installing the packages which will probably require some messing.  Alternatively skip this by not installing X now and then go back to it later: this is what I did, I didn't do X for a couple of weeks.  In general X and PPP are the hardest things to install - when you beat them you are well over the hill towards gurudon ;-)
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 05:48:13PM +0200, Teofil Dereta wrote:
> > Dear Debian,
> > 
> > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 onto my computer. Everything
> > goes well until the installation program asks me if I would like to run
> > xf86setup so I could finish my installation and configure the keyboard,
> > monitor etc. When I answer "yes" an error message appears which says
> > something like 'file missing - /usr/X11R6/X11/xinit/xinitrc' and I can't
> > continue with the installation. Please help me. What should I do?
> > 
> > Thank you in advance,
> > 
> > Yours sincerely,
> > 
> > Teofil Dereta, CRO
> > 
> > 
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