Re: Installing X on woody
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On Monday 06 May 2002 09:08 am, D. Michael McFarland wrote:
> 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.
Greetings Michael:
One of the ways I have used in the past is to simply use dselect and add
something like kde, blackbox, or gnome. That will cause a bunch of
dependencies, and xfree86 will be one of them. Before doing this however,
you might want to first run dselect without actually selecting anything just
to make sure you have all the basics that might have been missed on your
install.
Also, make sure you have your sources properly added. If you need a copy of
the addresses, let me know and I will send you my working
/etc/apt/sources.list file.
hth. Good luck to you.
tatah
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