> I have recently installed debian on a older pc at work with only a 500 meg > hard drive and no cdrom. There was no room for both downloaded deb files > and the uncompressed system on the hard drive if I installed all the options > I wanted, therefore, I installed the standard system. Now, I want to go > back and install the bare necessities to run X. However, I need to know > which of the many packages I need to accomplish this. Can someone please > get me started on this? > > Thank you, > Amy
Ok, sounds like you could be using hamm, so the list of X packages is: xbase (not upgrade from hamm to slink, the original xbase) xserver <--This guy is videocard specific. Svga one works fine on most cards xfnt75 or xfnt100 xfntbase probably xlib6 &&|| xlib6g The dependencies for xbase: Package: xbase Version: 3.3.2.3-2 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: cpp, ncurses-base (>= 1.9.9g-8.6), libc6, ncurses3.4, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) Recommends: xserver-vga16 | xserver Conflicts: xstd, xterm-color Replaces: xstd, xterm-color HTH, Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux.