Re: Getting XFree 4.3?

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

David Z Maze wrote:
> Jon Haugsand <jonhaug@ifi.uio.no> writes:
>
> > My Dell Latitude needs XFree 4.3, but I'm not sure how to get it for
> > my Woody laptop.
>
> IMHO, you'll run into too many problems if you try to go the backport
> route; lots of things depend on the X libraries (which, fundamentally,
> haven't changed in 10 years) and there have been reports of people
> mixing backports and running into huge dependency problems.  All you
> really want is a newer X server.  So find your favorite XFree86
> mirror, download Xxserv.tgz and Xmod.tgz, unpack those in /usr/local
> (or a subdirectory of /usr/local/stow, if you use stow), repoint the
> /etc/X11/X symlink to point at /usr/local/bin/XFree86, and edit your
> XF86Config-4 file.  You're still using the XFree86 4.1 libraries, but
> this shouldn't make a difference to anything (aside from maybe dpkg).

An easier way to get Xfree86 4.3:

Put this unofficial from http://www.apt-get.org/ into sources.list:

  # 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