On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:26:57PM -0500, Peter Hutnick wrote:
| The problem is if I try to upgrade my X thus:
|
| # apt-get install xfree86-common/unstable
|
| I get:
|
| Reading Package Lists... Done
| Building Dependency Tree... Done
| Selected version 4.1.0-8 (Debian:unstable) for xfree86-common
| Sorry, xfree86-common is already the newest version.
| 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
|
| But KDE clearly (?) states I am running 3.3.6-11, which is the
| stable package, AFAIK.
|
| I get the same thing if I omit the "/unstable".
|
| I check and I only have one "X" binary on the system
| (updatedb;locate X | grep -e 'X$') so it isn't that I have both and
| am running the old one as far as I can tell.
Is that /usr/bin/X11/X by any chance?
| Where am I going wrong?
To find out all the packages available (not necessarily _all_, but
certainly all that you have) use
dpkg -l \*
to see just what is installed
dpkg -l \* | grep "^ii"
to see which X servers are installed,
dpkg -l xserver\*
/usr/bin/X11/X is a small generic wrapper program that reads a couple
config files in /etc/X11 then runs the real X server which is
referenced by /etc/X11/X. X3 has many different binaries that may be
run, such as "Xserver-SVGA" or "Xserver-Mach64" (or something like
that). With X4 it is a single binary called "XFree86".
You need to adjust where /etc/X11/X points to and you need to generate
a config file for X4. It is a bit different syntax than X3, but it is
similar enough to not really need relearning.
HTH,
-D
