Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never
able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things
etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy
with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has
broken and it is in terms of performance just as stable as Potato,
IMHO.
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: peter <pschnebel@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:05:42 +0100
>Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 14:44 schrieb Nils Crefeld:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i'm running potato r2 with xfree 3.3.6. now i would like to
upgrade to
>> xfree 4.0.x. I tried to put a line for the woody release into
my
>> sources.list, but then dselect wants to update all newer
packages. i just
>> want to upgrade the xserver (and maybe some other packages x
depends on)
>> and not everything. is there a way to do this?
>>
>> Nils
>
>hi ...
>
>try to use apt-get....
>
>with "apt-get update" you receive the package informations
(provided by
>/etc/apt/sources.list)...
>with "apt-get install <packagename>" you get the wanted
packages...
>but it's usefull (when dealing with woody) to use "apt-get -s
install
><packagename>",
>then apt-get only shows what it "would" do...
>
>i hope i could help you a bit, cos im a newbie either...
>
>greets peter
>
>
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