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Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3



On 11/12/02 at 9:17 PM Rob Weir wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:19:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows.  Other
>> than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config,
>> are there any other preparations that I should make before taking
>> the upgrade plunge?
>
>No Debian package is going to overwrite your locally changed config
>files.  If one does, it's a very serious bug and should be reported to
>the BTS (http://bugs.debian.org/).  You might have once told X that
>debconf should manage your XF86Config4, so that might be overwritten,
>but it back up your original and you can easily change your mind with a
>'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86'.
>
>Aside from that, 4.2 supports more cards, has a lot of bug fixes and
>should just generally work better.  Enjoy!
>

Hi,

There seem to be dozens of X related packages, and I'm a bit confused over
which to apt-get.  I'm mostly on Woody but planning to pull in XFree86 4.2
using apt-get -t testing install ?.deb

My question is which package to specify to basically install XFree86 and
its dependencies?

Cheers - Dave



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