On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:36:36 +0100 Gabriele / randall / Modena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Once upon a time Harvey Ussery wrote: > > I installed DebPPC(Woody) last month; then learned I was not going to > > be able to run X with an nVidia card unless I had XFree86 4.3x (not > > available on the install CD's). > > There are no xfree 4.3 packages in the official stable release (not even > in sid), you have to use a backport or compile it from sources. > > You can look for an unofficial repository on www.apt-get.org > > > I cannot download the "official" deb packages until their > > problems are resolved. > > I just dist-upgraded to sid and got no problems downloading the packages > from an official source (http.us.debian.org). Hi, I put this line in my sources.list in order to get 4.3 on my PowerBook 12". # X Strike Force Experimental XFree86 Debian Packages deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main but had to turn to SID in order to get the dependencies. Actually, it may have worked with Sarge (dunno) but I thought about it too late :( I turned back to Sarge after I got X working. I know it is probably not the best solution but I was a bit in a hurry and did not want to stay in SID for long. I think I can expect to have a 'pure' Sarge install in a few weeks. I still have these lines in my sources.list (but with a sarge source for the other parts) and it's up. Can't really say whether the packages are actually there (I can't get xlibs-dev 4.3 for now, only 4.2 though I found it in the packages description on the server) but I had problems figuring out how to put an EXPERIMENTAL line in my sources.list at the very beginning, perhaps you're in a similar situation... Olivier. -- Olivier Crouzet acoustique, acquisition, interpr�tation - JE 2220 D�partement de Sciences du Langage UFR Lettres et Langages Universit� de Nantes
