Hello I'm new to Debian (a recent convert from Mandrake) and a moderately advanced Linux user, but I've been having a few problems getting everything up and running on my IBM ThinkPad A22m (the problems aren't laptop-related).
(1) The X server is complaining about not finding the 'fixed' font. I have (to my knowledge) xserver-xfree86, xserver-common, xfonts-100dpi, and xfonts-75dpi installed (I'm not sure what else related). Is there something I'm missing? I'm doing the configuration with 'XFree86 -configure', if that helps any. (2) After getting the X server working, I would like to install Gnome. AFAIK, the only(?) way to do this is with Ximian Gnome's installer, correct? Their two methods are the 'http://go-gnome.com | sh' and 'apt-get install task-ximian-gnome' (from http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main). I've read some bad things about the go-gnome installer, so I decided to do it the apt-get way (since that's why I've enjoyed Debian). There's a ton of extra packages that are required, so I install them all. Then the fun begins. I get this error that libgnome-vfs0_1.0.5-1.ximian... is trying to overwrite /usr/lib/vfs/extfs/a, which is a file included in gnome-vfs-extfs. My install dies, and now I can't install anything with apt-get. More reading allowed me to see that with dselect I can tell apt not to keep trying to install libgnome-vfs0. I tried taking the red-carpet.ximian.com out of sources.list, updating, and installing the non-ximian libgnome-vfs0. That seemed to work. I uncommented red-carpet.ximian.com, and tried to do it again, and I get the same error. For the RTFM's out there, where is the FM? I have looked on Ximian's site (no support at all), at debian.org (not half bad, great package searching), and Google seems to not like me today. Also, I believe I am running a testing woody machine (though I'm still getting used to the exact terminology). Any help would be appreciated! Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
