RE: Installing X4 over 3.3 using Shell script
Thanks for that.
That begs the question now, do I / can I delete the X4 files safely and
then install the X4 Deb ?
Should I be able to just delete the installed files and then install the
Deb?
Any ideas?
TIA
Wayne.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: francisco m . neto [mailto:einstein@socrates.if.usp.br]
> Sent: 18 April 2001 14:38
> To: Debian Users
> Subject: Re: Installing X4 over 3.3 using Shell script
>
>
> Wayne Brown disse isso e eu digo aquilo:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have done this successfully but am wondering what impact
> this may have in
> > the future, as apt still thinks I'm using 3.3. I would like
> to install Gnome
> > and wonder if this will impact on it. Any advice please?
>
> I think it's a problem. I did it once, and it messed up my
> whole system. The point is that, when you do an 'apt-get update', it
> will update the package database for the newest version of X - version
> 3.3. When you do 'apt-get upgrade', it will try to install that
> version of XFree, and it will conflict with your new installation of
> XF4 that supposedly doesn't exist, and, at the same time, it won't
> find the XFree that the database says is there.
>
> I don't know what kind of problem it could give if you did an
> 'apt-get install task-gnome' (or something like that), but I guess it
> *could* work.
>
> Christian Terboven built the XF4 debs, and they work very
> fine. Some time ago, I posted a message asking for those debs, and he
> gave me their location: people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf402_potato/
> (thanks Chris). It works pretty fine (thanks again! :-) if you use
> potato.
>
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