-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 January 2004 09:00 pm, Nick Boyce wrote: > As part of my efforts to get fonts looking better on my KDE 3.1.4 > Woody system, I want to update the XFree86 4.1.0-16 that comes with > Woody, to the XFree86 4.2.1-14 that backports.org makes available. > > (There are comments in the archive to the effect that anti-aliasing > isn't properly supported by XFree86 4.1.0) > > With this deb source line : > deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable xfree86 > running "apt-get update; apt-get -s upgrade" gives me messages saying > a number of X packages will be kept back : > ===================< cut >=================== > glimmer:/etc/apt# apt-get -s upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages have been kept back > x-window-system-core xbase-clients xlibmesa3 xlibs xlibs-dev xprt > xterm > 22 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not > upgraded. > Inst debconf (1.2.35 www.backports.org) > Inst lbxproxy (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst libdps1 (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst libxaw6 (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst libxaw7 (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst proxymngr (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst twm (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xdm (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xfs (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xfwp (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xfree86-common (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xserver-common (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xnest (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xvfb (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst x-window-system (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xutils (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xfonts-100dpi (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xfonts-75dpi (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xfonts-base (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xfonts-scalable (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > Inst xspecs (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) > ===================< cut >=================== > > I'd be grateful for anyone's advice here, before I screw up my > system. Am I supposed to do a dist-upgrade to resolve this ? > Would it be better to "apt-get install" some particular meta or base > package, instead of "upgrading" ? > > Thanks in advance > Nick Boyce > Bristol, UK
Apt-get will not install a package if it depends on a new package. I can't say if this will bonk your system but it is telling you additional packages are needed. Dselect does a more complete job of satisfying depends, or you could do 'apt-get -s intall' on the held back packages to see what is happenning there. Be careful of mixing backports, that said, I did what you are attempting with Adrian Bunks backports with success. - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAHNnk7rtxKWZzGsRAq0YAJ9EvkAlSHt7JARX1dXuFkwxFTn2gACfWuDl /XJn49JquTqFg5cIGeMOjdc= =lxfe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
