Re: installing gdm
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Robin Faichney wrote:
> I have Debian 2.2, and would like to substitute gdm for xdm.
>
> I'm a recent convert to Debian, and not entirely at ease with the
> package management utilities. Using dselect, and selecting gdm, I'm
> told that it conflicts with xdm which will therefore be removed. But
> task-x-window-system depends on xdm, so that will be uninstalled too,
> which is obviously not what's wanted. I tried to force it not to
> remove task-* by hitting Q instead of <return> in the dependencies
> list, but that seemed to have no effect. How can I get gdm properly
> installed?
There is no problem removing task-x-window-systems. It is only a so called
meta-package, "containig" only dependencies to other packages, so that
they get installed. After removing it installing gdm should be no problem.
Martin
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