On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:33:31AM -0700, Chris Stork wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm new to Debian, so forgive me if I miss the obvious. (I tried to > read as much of the relevant docs as possible, but maybe I missed > something...) > i should have written the same thing :)
> When upgrading from potato to woody (added the testing lines to > sources.list; apt-get update; apt-get -f dist-upgrade) the new X 4.0 > packages are held back (how does that work anyway? Any documentation > about the _rationale_ for that?). I thought I just have to reboot (like > with SuSE), but then my machine hung on entry to runlevel 2. It seems that > my rc scripts weren't upgraded yet. Ok, so then I did dpkg --configure > --pending. That configured some more packages but the new X packages were > still kept on hold -- so I installed them manually. (Why do I have to do > that? Shouldn't apt be able to figure that out?) > i encounter the same difficulties > I guess I am missing something fundamental here. I assumed that Debian > tries to convert my 3.3.6 config files to 4.0.2-7 ones or at least guide the > user thru the configuration using debconfig. Is that true? If not should I > just configure the system as if I got it directely from xfree.org? > > Any comments/clarifications appreciated! I used xf86config to configure XFREE4, everything is ok now except the keyboard, i can't use AltCtrl (except in the console mode) and the system doesn't seem to understand my locales file (again except in the console mode). Good luck -- Latreyte David http://www.gaule.org Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Woody --
