Am Sam, 2003-03-08 um 12.32 schrieb tom@stricklandc.demon.co.uk: > Hi, > I'm sorry if this question is a little too newbie-ish, but my system is > in a bit of a state and I could really use some help. > > In trying to upgrade to gnome 2.2, I ran into a dependency on xfree86 > 4.2 (thanks Yuhanes Tjandra for helping out with that one). The XFree 4.2 dependency should have been mentioned in the Debian News Letter. > So I tried > to upgrade to xfree86 4.2. > eek. > The upgrade only partially succeeded and some of my packages are XFree86 > 4.2, some are 4.1. > > Should I have deinstalled xfree86 and then installed the new packages, > or did I do the right thing in trying to upgrade? There is no need to uninstall first. Just do an apt-get install xfree86-common/testing and you should be fine. > Now that I'm stuck > here (without a working X system), what can I do? What further > diagnostics could I usefully send to the list to help solve my problem? If the method above doesn't work, try to remove all xfree packages and reinstall. HTH -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody: Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice
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