-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 October 2001 06:56 pm, Scott Henson wrote: > OK I have lilo set up and everything. I put the entry for windows 98 > into lilo.conf. I upgraded to the lastest version of lilo in > testing. And now I cant change the mbr. I run lilo after editing > lilo.conf, but after I reboot lilo only has linux as its options. > The new entry for win98 doesnt show up. Also apt wont install x or > anything related to it. I got kde installed, but when ever I do > apt-get task-x-windows-system (or whatever it is) it says it the > pakage doesnt exist. Also I try going into apt-cache search efree86. > It returns a pakage, but I get the same pakage doesnt exist error. I > am reading the pakage lists and everything, but apt wont get certain > pakages. It just says they dont exist. I think it my have something > to do with apt-get update. It always complains about not getting all > the indexes. I do have the latest version of apt and all other > relevant pakages. I did a dist-upgrade to testing. I am totally > confused as to why this wont work properly. Thank you for any help.
You need to have a succesful 'apt-get update' (fix that first) once you do try using 'tasksel' it has a 'task xwindows' option. - -- Greg Madden -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE72NdigFopErbyUAoRAhyeAJ9yyy9KM0sdNp5/eu8n4RocS/GukACfUjKW 0zL0DsGMKcZwnPUvD0LbPB8= =vts9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
