Re: Xfree 4.2?

[Corrin Lakeland <lakeland@cs.otago.ac.nz>]

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On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:17, Charles Blair wrote:
>    I have been told that my laptop won't do graphics without
> version 4.2 of xfree.  I tried downloading some files in a
> directory "branden" with names like xfreecommonv14.2.deb and
> also a v24.2.deb.  After using dpkg --intsall on these,
> it still seems to be trying to run 4.1
> unsucessfully.
>
>    Could somebody supply idiot-proof instruction on getting
> 4.2 going?

Note that this may bring down considerably more than you want to download.

vi /etc/apt/sources.list
<add unstable mirror>
vi /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 70
apt-get -tunstable install xfree86-common xterm xbase-clients

Corrin
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