Re: Installing new software
David Jones said:
> Hi,
> I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a full woody set of CD's
> but am unable to get XFree86 4 to work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use
> any of the other software on the woody cds because the system always wants
> to upgrade everything including X, which then won't work. How can I use
> the updated versions of say gimp, mozilla apache etc without the need to
> update X. I will come back to the problem with X later but at the moment I
> would just like to use the other updated packages. Is this possible and if
> so how?
> Any help will be great.
I have not been in this situation before but Woody does include XFree86 3.3.6
have you tried "upgrading" to that version and trying out the other
software(gimp, etc)?
nate
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