Re: frustration building, please help - latest - (was: does debian xfree support my video?)

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

skippi wrote:
> Ok, I have decided that I am stupid.  This is the only possible explination.  
> Can someone explain what I am doing wrong using very small words and short 
> sentances.
>
> I am trying to install Xfree86 4.3 on my Woody system.
>
> I go to http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ and download 
> all the files in the directory.
You are wasting lots of time unnecessarily by doing this.

> I take all the *.deb files and put them in /root/xfree4
>
> I execute while in /root
> dpkg-scanpackages debs /dev/null | gzip > xfree4/packages.gz
> It returns 
> Wrote 12 entries to output Packages file
> which is odd it seems since there are 55 *.deb files.
Not sure what you are trying to accomplish here.

> I add 
> deb file:/root xfree4/
> to /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> I execute 
> apt-get update
> it returns
> Reading Package List... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
OK.  Now I got it.

> I execute
> apt-get upgrade
> and....
> Instead of upgrading Xfree, it tells me
> The following packages have been kept back
>   x-window-system-core xserver-common xserver-sfree86
> 0 packaes upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded
>
> What am I doing wrong?  
> As always, I am grateful for assistance.

Sorry for pointing you in the wrong direction earlier.  I thought you 
had Sid, not Woody, which probably caused you lots of unnecessary grief,

Add this to your sources.list:

deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/$(ARCH)/ ./

Then:

# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

That should do it magically.

APT is a wonderful tool.  Take advantange of it.

The other alternative is to execute a

# dpkg -i *.deb

in the directory you downloaded all the files to.  That is the most 
effective way to install a local .deb package.

-Roberto

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