Installing X on woody
Hello All,
After a hiatus of about a year, I've come back to Linux and have been
playing with my first careful Debian installation. Over the weekend I
did a minimal net install of potato starting with the compact flavor
of floppies, then used apt-get and some pointers gathered from this
list to upgrade to woody. Yes, I know I'm hanging onto the leading
edge by my fingertips and my timing could be better, but the machine
in question isn't doing anything critical and, anyway, it's been fun.
Of course, I hit a snag, or I wouldn't be posting. I didn't install
XFree86 or any other X packages the first time around, thinking I'd
wait and get the latest of everything once I'd switched to woody.
That's turning out to be harder than I expected, with tasksel
complaining about a missing x-window-system task and all my other
attempts (with apt, etc.) failing for want of some component or
another, usually fonts.
I've googled fairly hard on this and found a few related threads, but
I haven't found that one post I need: "Do this, this and this and
startx ought to work." A summary of the necessary steps, or pointers
to documentation I might have overlooked, would be most appreciated.
Best regards,
Michael
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D. Michael McFarland
Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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