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Re: xfree 4.2 support in woody and/or sid?



On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:52:41AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
| At 07:18 PM 07/04/02 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
| >On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 11:45:59 -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
| >> Is there an line that can be added to bring in xfree 4.2 for woody?  If 
| >> not, how about for sid?

| And thus: http://people.debian.org/~branden/sid/
| 
| Ok, I'm slow.  Do we update sources.list and update & dist-upgrade or
| download individual debs? 

I don't know if that directory is apt-gettable, but downloading
individual packages (eg with wget) always works.

Taking a quick glance with links, I see a file named "APT".  It reads
as follows :

~~~~~
# add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this repository
deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/$(ARCH)/
# add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list to use this source repository
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/source/
~~~~~

| If sources.list, is there an example.  And if individual debs, which
| ones and in what order should the be installed with dpkg?

The ones you want, just as always.  You can install them all at once
with 'dpkg -i' (just list all the file names).
 
| Or, I'm about ready to reinstall Sid on a laptop.  Do I need to install
| x-window-system before downloading the 4.2 files, or can the 4.2 files be
| installed with no prior X on the machine?

I would choose to not install an old version of X when you know you're
not going to keep it.  If the 4.2 packages are uninstallable if you
don't already have an X install then they are buggy and unusable (how
then could they be part of 'stable' which is meant to be installed
from scratch).

-D

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