upgrade to x.org not smooth
Some people have reported a flawless transition from xfree86 to x.org,
but unfortunately it's not my experience. My system refuses to install
xserver-xorg on account that it conflicts with xserver-xfree86.
"apt-get dist-upgrade" says: (after having already done "apt-get
upgrade" to get as close as possible before packages start getting
removed):
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
celestia evolution-data-server1.2 gaim gdm gedit gksu gnome-core
gnome-desktop-environment gnome-netstatus-applet kaffeine kalzium
kcachegrind kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 ksynaptics libgksu1.2-0
libgksuui1.0-0
libkdeedu1 libkipi0 libkonq4 libtiffxx0 showimg x-window-system-core
xbase-clients xprint xprint-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
evolution-data-server libdmx1 libfs6 libtiffxx0c2 libxau-dev libxau6
libxaw8
libxdmcp6 libxinerama1 libxkbfile-dev libxkbfile1 libxkbui1 libxss1
libxxf86dga1 libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 x11-common
The following packages have been kept back:
aspell-en libgtkspell0
The following packages will be upgraded:
evolution evolution-plugins gaim-data gedit-common libtiff4
libtiff4-dev
libx11-6 libx11-dev libxp-dev libxp6 xfree86-common xlibmesa-gl
xlibmesa-gl-dev xserver-common xterm xutils
16 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 26 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 27.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 57.4MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
So apt-get is not considering installing xserver-xorg, while threatening
to remove core packages such as x-window-system-core.
Likewise, aptitude reports xserver-xorg as a "broken package", saying:
Some dependencies of xserver-xorg are not satisfied:
* xserver-xorg conflicts with xserver-xfree86
The following packages conflict with xserver-xorg and will be broken
by its installation:
* xserver-xorg conflicts with xserver-xfree86
The only way I seem to be able to proceed is by hand, explicitly marking
xserver-xfree86 for removal, in which case xserver-xorg gets selected to
replace it. But that doesn't really count as a "smooth transition".
I'm not filing this as a bug at this point since I'm not sure if it's
happening just because my system was in some weird state under xfree86.
But it's the sort of problem that I think we'll want to be sure won't be
happening for sarge->etch. Is there any package that my mirror might
have not yet have grabbed that might cause this problem? As far as I
know it's now received all of the 6.8.2.dfsg.1-2 pulse (for i386).
I suspect the conflicts may be turning up because of dependencies under
the gnome-desktop-environment task, which has got itself marked for
removal. When I try to reinstate it, it complains, citing problems with
gnome-core, gdm and gnome-netstatus-applet. They seem to be having
trouble pulling in the new xbase-clients. I'm wondering if it has
something to do with the mesa/glu libraries.
So at the moment I have xserver-xorg installed, but xbase-clients and
other packages are not cooperating.
Drew
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