Re: 4.2 install report
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 20:54, Thatcher Ulrich wrote:
> On Jul 08, 2002 at 09:44 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 09:49:56AM -0400, Thatcher Ulrich wrote:
> > > On Jun 27, 2002 at 11:40 -0400, Thatcher Ulrich wrote:
> > > > On Jun 27, 2002 at 10:05 -0400, Thatcher Ulrich wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > BTW, can someone quickly explain what I do to try the new version of
> > > > > the package? I'm a Debian newbie, so I only really understand the
> > > > > basics of dselect/aptitude.
> > >
> > > OK, I fiddled around endlessly and discovered that the x-window-system
> > > and x-window-system-core packages do not automatically pull in the
> > > 4.2.0 version of xserver-xfree86, on my system. Probably an APT
> > > configuration thing, like I said I'm new to Debian.
> >
> > Hmm, I'm not sure what packages you're using:
> >
> > Package: x-window-system-core
> > Status: install ok installed
> > Priority: optional
> > Section: x11
> > Installed-Size: 120
> > Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
> > Source: xfree86
> > Version: 4.2.0-0pre1v1
> > Depends: xserver-xfree86, xlibmesa3, xfonts-base (>> 4.0), xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, xfonts-scalable, xbase-clients, xutils
>
> Yup, that matches what I see from "apt-cache show
> x-window-system-core". I've been using aptitude to do my
> installations. I have no clue why it doesn't pull in xserver-xfree86
> and so on -- when I ran the install, it claimed it successfully
> installed x-window-system-core, but it did nothing with the
> dependencies.
Because they are unversioned, the old versions that were already installed
satisfied them.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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