Re: How do I tell apt that X is installed (from tar dist)

["Tony Crawford" <tc@crawfords.de>]

Doug MacFarlane wrote (on 19 Dec 2002 at 13:32):

> APT::Default-Release "stable";
> 
> and add lines to /etc/apt/sources.list that point to testing, as
> well as to stable, like this:
> 
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free
> contrib
> 
> # entry for testing distribution for installing from testing
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free
> contrib

Thanks, Doug! That answers an even better question than the ones I 
asked. It's been heck to get an X-server running on this notebook, 
but if I save my XF86Config-4 very very safely, I think your 
suggestion is the way to go.

Tony

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