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Re: startx missing in potato - 4.0.3



On Sat, 26 May 2001 00:15:13 CDT, Dana wrote:


> 
> Actually, startx is gone.  I should have just done an upgrade
> from xfree86.org vs the dist-upgrade via apt-get.  Just a reminder,
> this is a potato 2.2.r3 release.  I also should have backed up
> startx. I *really* don't want to reinstall again.
> 

Make sure that you have the package xbase-clients installed.  Thats the 
package that startx ships in.

Other xfree86 version four packages I have installed are:

package				version

xfree86-common			4.0.3-3
xserver-xfree86			4.0.3-3
xfonts-100dpi			4.0.3-3
xfonts-75dpi			4.0.3-3
xfonts-base			4.0.3-3
xfonts-scalable			4.0.3-3
xserver-common			4.0.3-3
xterm         			4.0.3-3
xutils        			4.0.3-3


If you apt-get these packages you should have enough to get x running 
again.

enter them all on one line and use the --fix-missing option:
(apt-get --fix-missing install xfree86-common xserver-common etc.)

This should at least fill out your dependancies.

It seems that you may have had more than xbase-clients removed when you 
did the upgrade. I hope you didn't lose too much.

Don't re-install, it's not much fun and it's not really neccessary.

good luck,




-- 
Paul T. Wright <paul@cvanet.com>
-currently seeking employment-





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