Re: xbase-client will not install

2004-04-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:03:30 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming from Rodney D. Myers: > > > > He is using Sarge.. I didn't get a chance to write down the error > > message. > > What does "dpkg -l | grep xserver-xfree86" say? > > his machine isn't sitting in front of me, b

Re: xbase-client will not install

2004-04-01 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Rodney D. Myers: > > He is using Sarge.. I didn't get a chance to write down the error > message. What does "dpkg -l | grep xserver-xfree86" say? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - --

Re: xbase-client will not install

2004-04-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:45:51 -0500 Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In trying to get libvx1 installed, it claims to be > > conflicting with xlibs. > > libxv1 in sarge and sid requires an xlibs with a version greater > than 4.1.0. If that's the version of xlibs you have installed, > yo

Re: xbase-client will not install

2004-04-01 Thread Chris Metzler
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:51:49 -0800 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to get a friends Dell laptop up and running. > > I ran "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade" this afternoon, and > everything appeared to work/install. You don't give enough information. What are you tr

xbase-client will not install

2004-04-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm trying to get a friends Dell laptop up and running. I ran "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade" this afternoon, and everything appeared to work/install. Until I tried to run startx, which gave the "startx not found" When looking through the installed packages, I noticed that xbase-clients wa