Re: Installation of XFree86

[Esko Lehtonen <esko.lehtonen@pp.htv.fi>]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 12:33:56AM +0800, KaLEESan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there any command to install all the necessary packages for the X server
> instead of install the packages one-by-one?
> 
> looking for your kind help
> 
> : P
> 
> 
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There are packages in main/binary-i386/x11/:

  task-gnome-apps_1.0.3.deb  
 task-gnome-desktop_1.0.10.deb  
 task-x-window-system-core_1.0.deb   
 task-x-window-system_2.1.deb     

They are meta packages which depends on other packages, so using dselect or apt-get is needed.   

So try:

apt-get install task-x-window-system-core
apt-get install task-x-window-system

and for gnome desktop (if you want it too) install their task packages too. I am not quite sure, but you may have to install a right xserver, so you get something better than basic VGA. xserver package depends on type of your video card.

Note that apt-get downloads and installs its packages from internet. If you want  install from cd, you can use apt-cdrom or dselect.



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 Esko Lehtonen
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