On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
> >
> > I have tried to install the fvwm95_2.0.42a-6.deb, but it failed
> > with the error in the configuration phase.
> > The message was:
> >
> > grep: /etc/X11/window-managers: No such file or directory
> > cp: /etc/X11/window-managers: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: error processing fvwm95 (--configure)
>
>
> As far as I'm aware, that means you don't have xbase installed
> (recent version). If that is installed, and you want to get
> rid of that error message, just
> touch /etc/x11/window-managers
> and reinstalling fvwm95 will do. Or, of cource try fvwm2, or
> any of the other 9 (or more) available window managers.
> (but they all _should_ have the same problem if /etc/x11/window-managers
> doesn't exist)
>
On a brand new installation, it is often necessary to rerun the INSTALL
part of dselect several times. For some reason, dselect tires to install
the window managers befor xbase is done. Usually, the second time things
work out fine.
Cheers,
Carlo
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