Re: still no X

[Brian Stults <bs7452@csc.albany.edu>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:53:46PM -0500, Jacob I. Stowell wrote:

>  > Hi again,
>  >
>  > Today I moved /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 and I apt-get --reinstall all of
>  > the packages associated with X 4.0.1.  However, I still received the
>  > error cannot open fonts (the one I posted yesterday).  I was so hopeful
>  > when I updated this afternoon and all of the packages had been updated. 
>  > even after installing the NEW X packages, i still get the same error.  I
>  > am really confused.  I saw another post that talked about corrupted
>  > fonts, but I did not see a response to that either.
>  >


I think you're missing a package.  Try "apt-get install 
task-x-window-system". 

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Brian J. Stults
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University at Albany - SUNY
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