On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:21:44AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I have installed x-window-system in order to use gnopernicus for gnome > accessibility. But I do not want X to start at boot. I was advised to > change my runlevel from 2 to 3 in my /etc/inittab but that did not > solve my problem.
That was wrong advice from somebody used to Red Hat or similar. You can do something like 'mv /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc2.d/s99xdm' on Debian. > finally I removed xdm using --ignore-dpendency=x-window-system. My > installation works fine, including gnopernicus/gnome. However, now > apt-get won't let me upgrade or add packages; it just keeps > complaining about how i should run 'apt-get -f install" because of the > unmet dependencies. I am using debian unstable; in earlier > distributions you could install x-window-system without xdm; I'm not > sure when or why that changed. Is there anything I can do about this? Yes, remove x-window-system. It's only a metapackage for convenience, to install a more or less complete X Window System; if it's not convenient, remove it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
