On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:51:49 -0800 "Rodney D. Myers" <rdmyers@MtPalomar.net> wrote: > > I'm trying to get a friends Dell laptop up and running. > > I ran "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade" this afternoon, and > everything appeared to work/install. You don't give enough information. What are you tracking or upgrading to? Testing? Unstable? > Until I tried to run startx, which gave the "startx not found" > > When looking through the installed packages, I noticed that > xbase-clients was not installed. > > In attempting to "aptitude install xbase-clients" it claims to be > dependant on libvx1. There is no package called libvx1. There are packages called libvx1.25 and libvx1.27c102 but xbase-clients does not depend upon either. There *is* a package called libxv1 (note the transposition of letters), and the version of xbase-clients that's in sarge and sid does depend on it. I'm going to presume from here on that that's what you meant, and it was a typo. If I'm wrong, please jump in and correct me. > In trying to get libvx1 installed, it claims to be > conflicting with xlibs. libxv1 in sarge and sid requires an xlibs with a version greater than 4.1.0. If that's the version of xlibs you have installed, you'll have problems. It *should* want to upgrade that too, though, rather than trying to remove xlibs altogether. And if you're tracking sarge or sid, I wouldn't expect you to have anything from X 4.1.0 or less anyway. So I doubt that's what's going on. Could you quote the actual error message, rather than just saying "it conflicts"? -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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