Re: Help!

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Tech4rce microsystems:
> 
> I've even skipped the X window system on settup, downloaded the New 
> XFree86-4.4.0, and ran through the setup.  Reboot - now it comes up with 
> missing "glide"package.

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(0) keeling /home/keeling_ aptitude search glide
p   glide2-base                             - Legacy package that you should remove.            
p   glide2-bin                              - Binaries for glide2.                              
p   libggi-target-glide                     - General Graphics Interface Glide2 display target  
p   libglide2                               - Graphics library for 3Dfx Voodoo based cards      
p   libglide2-dev                           - development files for libglide2                   
i   libglide3                               - Graphics library for 3Dfx Voodoo based cards      
p   libglide3-dev                           - development files for libglide3                   
p   mesag-glide2-dev                        - Development library for Mesa [libc6].             
p   mesag3-glide2                           - A 3-D graphics library which uses the OpenGL API [
p   vlc-glide                               - Glide plugin for vlc                              
p   xhangglider                             - hanggliders fly around in your X root window.     
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Is any of that relevant to you?  Ie., libglide3 is a "Graphics library
for 3Dfx Voodoo based cards".  I have no idea why that's installed
here.  I don't have one.

> I'm very put off with this distro of  Linux at this point.

Go back to Windows then.  Why beat yourself up if you're not willing
to pay the price?  Spend money instead.  Maybe you'll live longer.  Bye.


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