Hi there, Sad new. It seems like Debian1.2 on the Dec 1996 InfoMagic CD ROM is kind of broken: the X stuffs just would not install properly !!!
A guy in our lab was going to install linux on one of the PC. Since I am a happy Debain user, I suggested him to try Debain. Unfortunately, while deselecting packages, some complains about 'X11R6 not available' even though xbase3.2 version 3.2-1a is selected. Does xbase3.2 not provide/replace X11R6 ?? Below is what xbase3.2 looks in Packages file, ------------------------------- Package: xbase Version: 3.2-1a Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Stephen Early <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: libc5 (>= 5.2.18), ncurses3.0, xlib6 (>= 3.2-0), cpp Recommends: xserver-vga16 | xserver Conflicts: xdependencies, xstd, xbaseR6 Provides: xbaseR6 Replaces: xdependencies, xstd, xbaseR6 Architecture: i386 Filename: frozen/binary-i386/x11/xbase_3.2-1a.deb msdos-filename: frozen/msdos-i386/x11/xbase.deb ------------------------------- An example package which complains about X11R6 is xasteroids version 5.0 whose description in the Packages file is : ----------------------- Package: xasteroids Version: 5.0 Priority: optional Section: games Maintainer: Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: libc5, X11R6, elf-x11r6lib Filename: frozen/binary-i386/games/xasteroids_5.0-4.deb msdos-filename: frozen/msdos-i386/games/xasterod.deb ------------------------ Anyway, the guy couldn't get Debain installed properly on the PC and I am too new to Debian to help him to sort the problem out quick enough!! He eventually went for Slackware and he is now a happy Slackware user !! I am quite sure the Debain team has done proper testing on the installion before releasing it on CD ROM. I wonder if anyone out there have encounterd similar problems with the same CD ROM set ?? It is kind of sad really because this is the 1st of many PCs round here which he is going to put Linux on. I am a bit frustrated because I would like to see Debian running on all the PCs but was unable to help him sorting out the installion problems quick enough. Well, any comments, explanations, fixes?? Thanks a lot H.C.Lai -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
