Re: x on my laptop problems
Debconf problems sounds like an artifact of the perl 5.6 transistion.
Making sure that my perl was upgraded to 5.6 would be my first step.
On 19 Jan 2001, Forrest English wrote:
>
>i just tried apt-get install tast-x-window-system-core
>
>it broke debconf. it said it was upgrading debconf (sources pointing at
>unstable), and now all packages won't install. because debconf won't
>install because of aparently a perl problem. and then everything else
>fails on depconf because it 'isn't configured yet'
>
>would anyone like to help? or is this just what i get for trying to run
>unstable?
>
>man... i don't want to install from floppies a second time... that took
>me over an hour.
>
>
>On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:39:06 -0500, Bob Rowe whispered to the router:
>
>!!This is one of the things that has driven be buggy about Debian. Of
>three
>!! attempted installations on my home machine, an old HP Vectra VL and a
>!! Toshiba 430CDT portable, only the Vectra presented a successful
>installation.
>!!
>!! I had the problem quoted below on the 430CDT after the base
>installation. I
>!! tried the apt-get statement cited in this email response--apt said the
>!! task-x-window-system-core was installed. I did apt-cache show to see
>if
>!! there were fixed fonts of any description on the machine and there
>were
>!! not. I also did a find with the same result. So I did apt-get update,
>then
>!! tried apt-cache show again. Nothing. I tried apt-get search xfonts*
>and
>!! still came up with nothing. Nichego. Nada.
>!!
>!! Today or tomorrow I will try RH7. That one, RH7, installed without a
>hitch
>!! on my home machine. Why is that? Why should one distribution install
>and
>!! another one will not? I presented my problems to this list and got
>some
>!! well-thought-out responses, but they didn't help.
>!!
>!! I would really like to switch to Debian because of dpkg and apt, and
>!! because Red Hat seems to be intent on becoming the Micr$oft of Linux
>distros.
>!!
>!! At 09:19 AM 01/19/2001 +0000, Frank Copeland wrote:
>!! >On 19 Jan 01 06:58:32 GMT, Forrest English <forrest@truffula.net>
>wrote:
>!! > >
>!! > >in my trying to apt all the right files for my laptop to run x, i
>seem to
>!! > >have missed somthing.
>!! > >
>!! > >when i attemt to run x...
>!! > >
>!! > >"Fatal Server error:
>!! > >could not open default font 'fixed'"
>!! > >
>!! > >what does this mean, and what do i need to do to fix it?
>!! >
>!! >It means you've neglected to install a necessary font package. The
>!! >simplest solution may be to 'apt-get install
>task-x-window-system-core'
>!! >which *should* pull in everything you need.
>!! >
>!! >Frank
>!! >
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