On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 03:08:31PM -0700, Joshua McClintock wrote: > I ran into the same problem as the gentleman the first reported this bug. > After I did your work around and tried to install xserver-xfree86, I get: > > Setting up xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-10) ... > Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; file does not exist. > Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; file does not exist. > > Thanks for any help you can provide. There are a couple of workarounds for this. They both boil down to getting the package postinst script to believe that you want it to manage the files for you. Method #1: Purge and reinstall the package. # dpkg -P xserver-xfree86 # apt-get -f install Method #2: Create the files in question, seed their checksums, and reconfigure the package. # touch /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # md5sum /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.md5sum # ln -sf /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X # readlink "/etc/X11/X" | md5sum > /var/lib/xfree86/X.md5sum # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He branden@debian.org | makes us suffer Christianity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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