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. Mine would only boot into Level 3 where I was able to run yast and reinstall the old XF86 stuff. 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