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Re: set up Xserver for etch upgrade



On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:21:38AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:51:45 -0000, rocky wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > By the way can you tell me what is a x-terminal-emulator do?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xterm
> 
> You can run
> 
> aptitude search '~Px-terminal-emulator|~Gx11::terminal'
> 
> to get a list of Debian packages which provide an x-terminal-emulator.
> 
> -- 
Debian has a system of 'alternative' of which x-terminal-emulator is a
part. That command points to (via a symbolic link) the specific program
that provides the xterm funtionality. Gcc, www-browser,x-www-browser are
other examples of 'alternative' symbolic links.
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