on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:43:27PM -0400, R1nso13@aol.com (R1nso13@aol.com) wrote:
> i'm upgrading to woody, and for various reasons, i'm not able to use
> apt-get.
Or your caps key?
I'd strongly suggest resolving your apt-get issues. Having a working
packaging system is an extremely useful thing.
> i am, however, able to download packages and install them
> using dpkg. so far i've installed xdm and xserver-ggi however i get
> the following message when i run 'startx'
>
> " /usr/X11/R6/lib/X11/xini/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: no such file or
> directory "
>
> this is because i don't have some package or another that i need, right?
> if so, is there a list of the packages i need just to install the basic x
> setup?
In general:
xbase-clients
xserver-common
xserver-<your video card>
...and work out the rest of the dependencies from the package
description itself. You can view this with 'dpkg -s <package>', or by
unarchiving the .deb with 'ar'.
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