Re: My Debian Blues
mixing slink and potato is probably a bad idea.
if you want slink, use slink and upgrade your X by adding the following
line in /etc/apt/soruces.list :
deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main
then run apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
matrox g400 works fine with the update i got several slink machines with
g400s in em.
at this point i would reccomend wiping out the system and installing
slink.
nate
On 12 Jan 2000, Alex Schuster wrote:
wonko >Hi there!
wonko >
wonko >I have installed Debian on my new PC, but I just cannot get it to run
wonko >properly.
wonko >
wonko >I got the CD images for the stable Debian from the net and created two
wonko >bootable CDs which I used to install. This basic installation worked
wonko >fine. But I could not set up the Xserver because my Matrox G400 video
wonko >card is too new. Okay, I got the Xserver-SVGA from the potato
wonko >directory and tried to install it. Which didn't work, because I also
wonko >need Xserver-Common and a new libc6. I got those, but I still needed a
wonko >libz1. Which I didn't find anywhere, but it seems the zlib was meant
wonko >here. Anyway, the next problem was a too old ldso, so I got it, too.
wonko >Now dselect complained that it needs a newer apt.
wonko >
wonko >Oh, well. What else would I need? I decided to get the complete potato
wonko >distribution. So ftp'ed all binaries (except for the devel directory,
wonko >which is another 420 MB) and burnt the stuff onto five CDs. Then I
wonko >copied them to my hard disk and let dselect check it out. Well, it
wonko >still wanted the new apt, I wonder why it complains here because I
wonko >wanted to install all the new stuff, including apt. I installed it
wonko >manually via dpkg --install, along with some other libraries. Still
wonko >dselect didn't work. I also tried to use apt als source for dselect
wonko >(instead of a mounted file system), but only got a huge list of
wonko >missing packages. For example, I need libpgperl_6.5.3-7, but I have
wonko >libpgperl_6.5.3-8. Why is it a problem to have a newer version??
wonko >
wonko >I just don't know what's wrong with my system. Maybe I messed things
wonko >up while playing with dselect, so I might try to reinstall Debian,
wonko >using only the necessary packages, not everything.
wonko >
wonko >Thanks for reading,
wonko >
wonko > Alex
wonko >--
wonko > Alex Schuster Wonko@weird.cologne.de PGP Key available
wonko > alex@pet.mpin-koeln.mpg.de
wonko >
wonko >
wonko >--
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