Re: What package contains XFree86?
On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 02:22, Scott Sewall wrote:
>
> I'm a new user to Debian GNU/Linux and Linux in general.
>
> I had a problem starting X for the first time with a new installation
>
> Here's the error:
>
> > PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
> >
> >
> > This should not happen!
> > An unresolved function was called!
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> >
> >
> >
> > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> > the full server output, not just the last messages.
> > This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> > Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org.
>
> I followed the instructions and reported the problem to
> submit@bugs.debian.org.
>
> Unfortunately, the report was not accepted because I had not submitted
> a package name in a
> psuedo-header in my report.
>
> I would greatly appreciate it if someone would tell me what's the
> package name for X and how do
> it determine it's version number?
use reportbug and its xserver-xfree86
Next time you can search using apt-cache search or aptitude and its
installed packages list.
--
Scott Henson <debian-list@silvercoin.dyndns.org>
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