Re: Starting programs in X

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> 
> > I make _no_ promises as to whether doing this will actually _install_
> > startx properly, but try this: remove xbase-clients, then retrieve the
> > .deb _without_ installing, and then extract startx with something like:
> >
> > dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile xbase-clients.*.deb | tar xvf - /
> >  ./usr/bin/X11/startx
> >
> 
> Oh, I could do that or something similar, yes.  But then the first time
> xbase-clients gets updated and startx doesn't, who knows what will happen
> :)

If you put the package on 'hold', nothing at all.

Patrick

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