On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 01:26:12PM -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > > I just installed Debian 2.0 on my new Dual PentiumPro box. > > IMHO, It's got some real plusses, and some definite minuses as cmpared > to RH 5.x... > > My real problem right now, is that X seems to have installed itself > without Xwrapper, and only root can launch X! I don't want to setuid > the xserver, and I can't find a .deb for the wrapper.
AFAIK there is no deb for "the wrapper" but....my system seems to use a wrapper script (my xserver isn't SUID) You installed xbase? and the proper xserver? what versions? is this from 2.0 or unstable? > Also, the Netscape .deb packages from contrib seem very broken. They > will not install, complaining that original .tgz files must be named > specifically, located in /tmp, and owned by root. I suppose I could > get the originals from NS, but that sort of defeats the purpose of > maintaining a package system. The netscape .deb is an installer (we are not allowed to actually put netscape into a package for install and distribute it) you need to get the netscape originals and place them in /tmp THEN use the netscape .deb to install...it will take the files from /tmp and install it debian "properly" > I used alien to convert RedHat's Netscape 4 .rpm's to .deb. These > installed with dpkg, but do not function. yea alien isn't perfect...there can be problems -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
