Re: [SLUG] Debian almost

From: Mike Manchester (mchester@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 17:15:34 EST


Thanks a lot Paul,
I'm up and running on Debian with Xfree 3.x.x on my IBM ThinkPad.
Mike M.

On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 13:44, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:54:05PM -0500, Mike Manchester wrote:
>
> > Thanks Paul;
> > Being new to Debian, I'm not sure why but my dselect doesn't show any
> > Xfree versions other than 4.1.0-16. How do I get the Xfree 3.3.6 to be
> > available in dselect? I have all 7 disks.
> >
>
> Argh. I don't know which disk it's on, but the install apparently didn't
> pick up that it's there in your case.
>
> Go into dselect again and search for xserver-svga, not visually, but by
> using the slash key (/). When you hit that key, it will allow you to
> type in what you're looking for at the bottom, and then go find it. (If
> you do a partial search, like "xserver", it may not land on what you
> want. When it lands on the item you don't want, just use the backslash
> [\] to continue the search. The search will wrap around if it gets to
> the end of your package list) If you absolutely can't find it this way,
> you have two other choices:
>
> 1. Update your package selection via the internet. This means going into
> dselect and changing your Access method in the opening screen to Apt
> (http, ftp, etc.). Ensure you're looking for "woody" or "stable" here.
> Then choose "Update", which will update your package selection. You
> should be careful with this. It may want to update some of the packages
> you have installed, and it's tricky to prevent it from doing that.
>
> 2. Update your package selection by looking at the discs again. Again,
> this is done by changing the Access method to "disc". Then select Update
> again, and you'll have to feed it your CDs again. Somewhere on those
> discs is xserver-svga. (I hope that's the one that will work.)
>
> There is a third choice. You can change your Access method to apt (http,
> ftp, etc.), and then get out of dselect. Then run
>
> apt-get install xserver-svga
>
> I haven't run this much, but one of two things will happen. If it's only
> going to download that, it will just download it and configure it. If it
> needs other support packages, it will calculate what they are, and then
> stop and ask you if you want to continue. If you say yes, it will
> download, install and configure them. I believe when you install
> something like an xserver, a debconf dialog runs that asks you which
> server you want to run. You can then pick xserver-svga, and it will
> change the /etc/X11/X link for you.
>
> Don't uninstall the 4.1 server until you get this working.
>
> Paul



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