On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 03:02:45PM +1000, Penguin wrote: > I have Potato 2.2r0. Unfortunately the unofficial debs for xserver-common > 4.1, etc etc will not install. dpkg complains that xfree(86?)-common is only > at 3.x version, when I need the 4.1 version. Why is this? I thought all those > packages that installed xserver-common etc for XFree 4.1 was all I needed to > get XFree 4.1 running so I could use my NVIDIA GeForce II MX400 64M AGP card. > > So, can anyone tell me what other debs I need to get this happening? dpkg > apparently needs xfree-common or xfree86-common, whatever that is. > > ...
I suppose the unofficials debs you mentioned are the debs by Charl P. Botha. The only problem I had while upgrading my potato box to Xfree86 4.1 was a dependency problem on xbase-clients (which depends on libfreetype6). But according to the READ.THIS file on http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha there may be some other dependency problems. Here are the steps to upgrade to XFree86 4.1 on a potato box that worked for me: 1.) install the version of libfreetype6 from http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf4_potato_debs/libfreetype6_potato 2.) add the following lines to sources.list: deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf410_potato/i386/ deb http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ xf410_potato/all/ 3.) apt-get update 4.) if you have an already running XFree86 3.3.x apt-get dist-upgrade should do the job. 5.) if you are installing XFree86 for the first time select the needed packages with dselect (configured with access method apt) - it will take care about dependencies or install one of the metapackages x-window-system-core (only the essential packages) x-window-system (a more complete X-Window system) via dselect or by apt-get install x-window-system HTH Andreas Schmidt
