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startx missing in potato - 4.0.3 SOLVED



Well, I actually got 4.0.3 going now.  Here's a
summary of what I did, and what went wrong... and
what fixed it. 

First off, I added the following to my sources.list:
# Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 - XFree86 Version 4.0.3 - added 05/24/01 
at 20:35
deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf403_potato/all/
deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf403_potato/i386/

I then preceeded to do an apt-get update followed by a 
dist-upgrade.
This replaced / updated the system to XFree86 4.0.3, but I 
found out
that the xbase-clients package didn't come over due to a 
dependency
issue, which was libfreetype6.  I fired up lynx and grabbed the 
deb
file, installed via dpkg and this allowed me to finally get the
xbase-clients package, thus restoring startx in /usr/X11R6/bin.

I have the output of apt-get and the errors.  If anyone is
interested I'll post it in a follow-up message.

Thanks goes out to Paul T. Wright, who pointed me in
the right direction.  And others also!

Dana
--
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.




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