Re: Installing a new version of XFree86
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, H. A. Sujith Shastry wrote:
> I have Debian 3.0rc2. I've installed XFree86(4.1) and I'm using the
> fbdev driver, because my video card is not supported. But my video card
> is supported in newer versions of XFree86(4.2 onwards), so I need to
> upgrade. How do upgrade XFree86 (and related packaged) without
> breaking (or upgrading) other packages? What should I download? What
> should I look out for?
The package you need to upgrade is xserver-xfree86, and you need the
version from Sarge (4.3; Woody is still on 4.1). There are a bunch of ways
you can go about doing it; the cheap/sleazy way that I would use is:
* edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the ordinary testing package
sources; e.g., insert this into your sources.list:
deb http://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ testing main
* apt-get update
* apt-get install xserver-xfree86
* assuming that goes well, and nothing that will Kill You is installed,
then comment out the line you inserted in your sources.list
* dpkg --clear-avail
* apt-get update (to revert to the previously available packages list)
You want to be careful. I might even run a dpkg --forget-old-unavail after
- --clear-avail. The problem with that is that if you run dselect
afterwards, dselect will automatically reselect any packages from
Standard, Important or Required that you had unselected, thinking that
they're new packages.
Read man dpkg before following these instructions though. :)
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