I have successfully upgraded to Xfree86-4.3 over the weekend.
First I installed apt4rpm as I only have a dial-up connection and apt will
restart broken downloads.
Then I used the latest "sources" file and commented out the "base" entry
I then ran:
* "apt-get update"
* "apt-get -f install"
to make sure everything was hunky-dory.
Then:
* "SuSEconfig"
After this, "apt-get -s Xfree86" suggested that a lot of packages would be
removed
So I downloaded all (except DRI) the rpms from
ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/Xfree86/Xfree86-4.3/suse81/
, including qt3
I installed with "rpm -Uvh", occasionally using "rpm -Uvh --force"
After successful installation, I deleted all "cache-1" files from the X11R6
fonts directory so that SuseConfig could be run.
Next Sax2. This kept failing but inspection of "/var/log/Sax.log" showed a
missing shared "qt3" library which I fixed by creating a symbolic link to
the latest
Sax2 then ran successfully.
I'm sorry I cannot provide more details, I'm currently at work, using
windoze :-(
I hope this helps y'all
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-----Original Message-----
From: R. Stia [mailto:usr@sanctum.com]
Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 11.08
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: Re: [SLE] XFree86-4.3.0 and Suse 8.1 request
for assistance
Richard wrote:
> On Sunday 09 March 2003 5:49 pm, R. Stia wrote:
>
>>Did an rpm -q XFree86. Was told that XFree86 is not
installed.
>>Checked, yes, is in apt-achives with all of the other
packages.
>>Thinking it might not have been installed I tried an
apt-get install.
>>Many pages of "depends" flew by on the screen. Tried a -
force and a
>>-nodeps. Didn't work. Then tried a apt-get dist-upgrade
and was advised
>>I had to download another 30 megabutes?? That shouldn't
be. I probably
>>did 3 apt-get -d dist-upgrade's to make sure everything
was downloaded
>>before I let it do it's thing. And,of course I can't do
another download
>>because I can't get on line with ppp!!
>>
>>So here I am, on my wife's old Windows machine asking for
help and
>>guidance. Anyone? Please??
>>
>>Bob S.
>>
>>
>
> I am afraid I cannot offer you much help in getting the
new XFree to working.
> I just went through what you are and I ended up restoring
the old X system
> stuff.
Oh Noooo.... I hate it when I hear things like that. I guess
I am not
alone in this problem.
>
> Mine would only boot into Level 3
Me too
> where I was able to run yast and reinstall
> the old XF86 stuff.
Hmmmm. I hate to have to do that. And, how did you do that?
from the
original 8.1 discs? If so, I don't have them. My 8.1 upgrade
is from 8.0
via apt-get
> First I went back into apt sources.list and removed the
Xfree86 entry so I
> could later use apt without screwing up my system any
further. Then I
> started Yast in level three and used the software
installation selection and
> reinstalled ALL of xf86 and KDE. Then I reinstalled the
KDE upgrade. and got
> things back to normal.
>
> I am now going to wait for some other poor fool to figure
out how to get it
> all running right before I try again.
>
> Hopefully someone will come along and tell us how to
upgrade XFree86 without
> messing up our system any further.
>
> If you need any more detailed instructions on how I
recovered, let me know.
> Richard
Yes please! I hate to ask you to do all that work but I'm
sure others on
the list may need that help also. What I don't understand is
that there
must be others who have successfully done the upgrade.
Bob S.
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