On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 07:15:44PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: > > now I wanted to install the current test version in debian of the > > xfree with apt-get but I didn't find how to install test packages. I also > > tried dpkg but it didn't install it cleanly. Could anyone give me a > > suggestion > > to solve this problem, please? > > What exactly is it you want to do? Your options are (in order from easiest > to hardest): > > * upgrade the entire system to the testing version of Debian > > * upgrade just XFree86 and its dependencies to the testing version, > running half stable/half testing
This one is actually pretty easy with the XFree86 4.0.3 or 4.1.0 packages from Carl Botha, which are basically the "testing" XFree packages backported to "stable". See http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/ . Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
