On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:36:31PM +0100, Stephan Herrmann wrote: > Meanwhile I started to think about this myself, and remembered > that I installed a binary distribution of XFree86 4.2.0 over > my debian package 4.1.0-something (because my hardware is not > supported by 4.1.0). The error occured, when I unintentionally > "upgraded" to 4.1.0-14. > Quite probable, that this interferes with debian, right? Yup. In fact, that's probably the cause of the problem. What I don't get is why xbase-clients didn't fail to unpack. I'll try and test this scenario before releasing -15. > Now I put xbase and related on "hold" to protect my manually installed > version. Is this the right way to use XFree86 4.2.0 with debian? > Which packages are affected? A bunch! Here's a complete list of possibilities: lbxproxy libdps1 libdps1-dbg libdps-dev libxaw6 libxaw6-dbg libxaw6-dev libxaw7 libxaw7-dbg libxaw7-dev proxymngr twm xbase-clients xdm xfonts-100dpi xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi xfonts-75dpi-transcoded xfonts-base xfonts-base-transcoded xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-pex xfonts-scalable xfree86-common xfs xfwp xlibmesa3 xlibmesa3-dbg xlibmesa-dev xlibosmesa3 xlibosmesa3-dbg xlibosmesa-dev xlibs xlibs-dbg xlibs-dev xlibs-pic xmh xnest xprt xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xspecs xterm xutils xvfb xlib6g xlib6g-dev x-window-system-core x-window-system -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six Debian GNU/Linux | or more legs and no brain. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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