Re: Installing X on woody
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:08:11AM -0500, 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.
>
> 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.
>
What response do you get for
# apt-get -s install x-window-system
> 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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