Hank Marquardt wrote: > I've added experimental to list.sources, I've update and even upgraded > today so the system is current, here's my current X inventory: [ snip lots of 4.2.1-16 stuff ] > What I'm concerned with is that if I enumerate all those in a 'apt-get > --simulate install' statement I get concerned by the output of > removing xlibmesa3 and xlibmesa3-gl ... it looks like all of KDE is > linked/effected by that and while KDE isn't explicitly being removed > I'm worried that it'll be hosed if I do the upgrade. i just had this exact same problem... i got around it by using aptitude and pretty much adding every X4.3 package i could find before hitting `g'... a word of warning though: xlibmesa3 and xlibmesa3-gl have been renamed to xlibmesa and xlibmesa-gl, so you will want to select them: so you wont have any dependency problems with KDE (or SDL, or anything else which requires them). i didn't have any "broken" packages when i finally pressed on `g'. you might need to add the xlibmesa-dri stuff too. you should _really_ ask yourself why you are going to X4.3: unless it has better support (or in my case... the only support of my card), there really isn't much benefit in the upgrade. maybe off-topic... but does anyone know if the new cursor themes are off by default for the X4.3 builds? i just came from LFS, and i had the new cursor themes on my desktop just by adding the resource "Xcursor.theme: whiteglass"... it was quite nice. but on debian, the resource makes no difference. anything else i need to add? hope that helps, cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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