Re: apt-get problems
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 04:53:17PM -0600, Dan Davison wrote:
> apt-get install won't let me do anything until I fix some dependency
> problems. But when I run apt-get -f install it exits with the output
> pasted below. The package that is mentioned as involved in causing the
> error (fglrx) is the driver for my ATI radeon video card which I got from
> their website (not via apt-get). I notice there's now a debian fglrx
> package available for that, so I could try apt-get -remove (--purge?)
> fglrx and then apt-get install fglrx, but I'm basically too scared to do
> that until someone more knowledgable tells me to, because it took me a
> while to get x-windows working in the first place.
Switch XFree86 to the VGA driver, uninstall ATI's driver, do your
apt-get fixing including installing the Debian-packaged driver. If
you don't like the Free driver, you can always reinstall ATI's.
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Carl Fink carl@fink.to
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