Thanks for that. That begs the question now, do I / can I delete the X4 files safely and then install the X4 Deb ? Should I be able to just delete the installed files and then install the Deb? Any ideas?
TIA Wayne. > -----Original Message----- > From: francisco m . neto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 April 2001 14:38 > To: Debian Users > Subject: Re: Installing X4 over 3.3 using Shell script > > > Wayne Brown disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > > > Hi, > > I have done this successfully but am wondering what impact > this may have in > > the future, as apt still thinks I'm using 3.3. I would like > to install Gnome > > and wonder if this will impact on it. Any advice please? > > I think it's a problem. I did it once, and it messed up my > whole system. The point is that, when you do an 'apt-get update', it > will update the package database for the newest version of X - version > 3.3. When you do 'apt-get upgrade', it will try to install that > version of XFree, and it will conflict with your new installation of > XF4 that supposedly doesn't exist, and, at the same time, it won't > find the XFree that the database says is there. > > I don't know what kind of problem it could give if you did an > 'apt-get install task-gnome' (or something like that), but I guess it > *could* work. > > Christian Terboven built the XF4 debs, and they work very > fine. Some time ago, I posted a message asking for those debs, and he > gave me their location: people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf402_potato/ > (thanks Chris). It works pretty fine (thanks again! :-) if you use > potato. > > -- > []'s > francisco m. neto > (a.k.a Fujikuro) > > "Toke au kokoro ga, watashi o kowasu." > -- Ayanami Rei > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
