Re: Woody 'problems'

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:07:58AM +0100, john gennard wrote:
> On Sunday 25 August 2002 18:32, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > Kernel version and X version (to which /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> > belongs to) have nothing to do with each other. What does 'dpkg
> > -l|grep xfree' say? Also, XFree86 is at version 4.1 in woody.
> 
> It says 'xfree86-common 4.1.0-16'. 
> What led me astray here is that 'dpkg -l' told me that both 
> 'xserver-common 4.1.0-16' and '3.3.6-44' were installed,

Ah, that would have introduced confusion. You can't have two different
versions of the same package installed simultaneously. What probably
happened is that 'dpkg -l' truncated "xserver-common-v3" to
"xserver-common" in order to fit it into the available screen space.

You can extend the screen width used by 'dpkg -l' by setting the COLUMNS
environment variable, like so:

  COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l xserver\*

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]