on Wed, Jun 12, 2002, Francisco Fialho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Peter, > > the dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 command gave me the following output: > Package xserver-xfree86 is not installed and no info is available. > /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xsrever-xfree86 is not fully installed. > then I went and did a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 and > got the: Couldn`t find package xserver-xfree86... > > where can I get this package?
xserver-xfree86 is the package that provides the actual X server binary itself and supporting files. The easiest way to obtain it, and all the other necessary packages, is to install the x-window-system metapackage: apt-get install x-window-system What x-window-system does is depend on all the appropriate packages for the basic X Window System installation. You'll then probably want to install a window manager or desktop environment of some sort. twm is functional but less than pretty. Personally, I favour GNOME. It would be much easier for you to install aptitude (apt-get install aptitude) and look at the tasks section there than it would be for me to enumerate all the packages you'd need :) Hope this helps Take care, Peter. -- Peter Whysall [EMAIL PROTECTED] The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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