Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Jon Haugsand wrote:
> * Russell Shaw
>
> >   # XFree86 4.3:
> >   deb http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/experimental/ ./
> >
> > (i have sources for "testing" distro too)
> >
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs
>
> xserver-xfree86 xlibs
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   xbase-clients: Depends: cpp-3.2 but it is not installable
>                  Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not installable
>                  Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.4-1) but it is not going to be installed
>                  Depends: libpng12-0 but it is not installable
>                  Depends: libxft2 (> 2.1.1) but it is not installable
>   xfree86-common: Depends: debconf (>= 1.2.9) but 1.0.32 is to be installed
>   xlibs: Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not installable
>          Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.4-1) but it is not going to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages

I think by setting up apt-get "pinning" or something, these dependancies
can be downloaded and installed automatically. However, i haven't figured
that out, so i resolve these problems manually (it doesn't happen very
often). Some of these errors may go away if you put this in apt.conf:

APT::Default-Release "testing";
APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;

apt-get update
apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs

Just handle the problems one at a time:

apt-get install -t testing cpp-3.2

If it depends on something else, then install that too.

apt-get install -t testing libfontconfig1
...
apt-get install -t testing libfreetype6

Then try again:

  apt-get install -t testing xfree86-common xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 xlibs