On Friday 14 March 2003 1:50 am, R. Stia wrote: .
I am going fishing for the next couple of days so I will expand the above and try to have it on this weekend.
Hope you catch a lot of fish. Have fun!
We had fun but no fish! I took my laptop on which I had downloaded all the SuSE Xfree86 upgrade files. Following the Readme and much of what Richard Bos had provided, I promplty got my laptop in the same fix as the other tries with XFree864.3! But I have figured out a way out! I had two problems. One dealing with apt sources.list and the other with the installation of XFree86. Apt was giving me a conflict between the tk rpm and I eventually figured out if I removed the suse-users entry as well as the base in /etc/apt/sources.list, that problem went away and I could use apt-get to upload and update. BUT, I am ahead of myself! I had followed the XFree86 instructions and while in the directory containing ALL of the xfree stuff it did the rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps *.rpm. Eventually it was all installed. Then I tried to do SuSEconfig which would hang trying to create the cache files for fonts. Richard Bos' suggestion to remove the font stuff in the cache directory didnt work. So after it hung time after time I looked into the font file and saw that it was installing the cerillic fonts. Since I dont even drink Russian vodka, I said why am I installing their fonts??? I deleted the XFree86-cerillic fonts rpm and cd'd into the directory with the xfree rpms and did another rpm -Uvh *.rpm. SUCCESS! SuSEconfig then ran just as it is supposed to do. Now I could run sax2 and make sure my video card was setup correctly. A shutdown and reboot got the laptop back up and running XFree86 4.3! Finally I did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and I am back in business. It looks like each computer reacts differently to an upgrade to XFree 86 4.3 which I'm sure that comes as no surprise to many, The real trick is to figure out what is hosing up the upgrade. In my case it was the cerillic fonts. Also after removing the entry for suse-people in the apt sources.list I can now keep the xfree86 entry in there and all is well in Mudville.
Richard Bos sent me an e-mail re: the upgrade. Going to see if I can make that work. May have to download the files from another computer and get them into this one though. I guess we will see.
If you had used apt-get upgrade to install XF86 you may still have them in the directory /var/cache/apt/archives Richard