RE:Installing X on woody

[Andrew Agno <agno@AI.SRI.COM>]

D. Michael McFarland writes:
 > 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 never used tasksel, but my install of X went fine using dselect
to select xfree86-common, xserver-common and xserver-xfree86; I expect 
that most everything else got pulled in automatically.

Andrew.


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