RE: what package to install a *working* X?
apt-get install x-window-system
good section on x here.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2016
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Ross
-----Original Message-----
From: Silvan [mailto:dmmcintyr@users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 July 2004 2:50 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: what package to install a *working* X?
Once upon a time, on Woody, all I had to do was apt-get install
konqueror, and
that pulled in X, kdelibs, etc.
I've installed Sid a few different times lately (last few months), and
I've
always had problems getting X. apt-get install kde pulls in
xfree86-common,
I think, but there's no X, no xinit, no xterm, etc. I did an install
today,
and there was some breakage that made things even more difficult than
usual.
It was quite a pain in the ass getting an X server installed. (I wound
up
having to add testing, unstable, *and* experimental to sources.list to
get
around all the broken deps and get everything I needed installed.)
Shouldn't there be one package, or one metapackage that installs a
complete,
working X server with all the support apps, all the screen fonts, etc.
requires to make the thing useful? If so, WTF is it? And why doesn't
installing konqueror or just any graphical application depend on the
installation of a working X server anymore? That hasn't been the case
in
months, and it seems completely broken and wrong-headed to me. What
good is
konqueror if you can't run it? Is there some way to run konqueror
without an
X server? How about kdm?
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