Re: XFree86 broken.
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:21:46 +0100, "Eivind Arnesen"
<Eivind.Arnesen@netcom.no> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I was just beginning to feel comfortable with Debian, when my
>X configuration broke down. I tried to remove XFree and install it again,
>but there is too many dependency problems. It looks like the package
>database
>is really screwed up. Just about whatever I try to do, I get some
>complaints
>about broken dependecies. I think maybe some of the dependent files, have
>been upgraded
>to newer versions (testing or unstable), but after several late hours
>yesterday, I was not
>able to fix it. Anybody have some usefull tips? Sorry, that I don't
>include much usefull
>information here (error messages, logs etc), but I'm using windows when I
>write this mail.
>(depressing...)
>
>Eivind
What version of xf are you using? I had a similar problem
and I downloaded the source to sf 4.01 and compiled it
rather than trying to depend upon packages. It didn't fix
everything but I was able to get xf limping along again in a
usable state.
Dan
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