Re: just installed woody and have problem with X install

[Robinder Bains <robinder@shaw.ca>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "dman" <dsh8290@rit.edu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: just installed woody and have problem with X install


> On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 07:33:25PM -0700, Robinder Bains wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> |   I just installed an iso of woody, it was one cd, my network card
installed
> | correctly and I can go online with my cable modem, but I get this error
when
> | I type startx
> |
> |  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such file or
> | directory
> | /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: exec: /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot
execute: No
> | such file or directory
> | giving up.
>
> |   Do I have X installed correctly?
>
> no ;-)
>
> |   Or do I have to apt-get some things?
>
> Do you have 'xserver-xfree86' installed?
>
> -D

  I'm new at this. How do I find out if I have xserver-xfree86 installed?


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