*- On 10 Sep, David Kanter wrote about "I upgraded X...I think?" > I tried to update X on my Slink, but am not sure if I did everything > correctly. > > Because I don't have an internet connection available at my Linux box, I > downloaded most of the files from http://www.debian.org/~branden/ at another > machine and used dpkg to upgrade everything I could, such as the vga and svga > servers, xfree86setup, and some other things. Some packages, like xbase, > couldn't be installed because I did not download lib6gdev. (I didn't think I > needed it when I downloaded all the files at the Web site, just the basic > ones to get some decent resolutions.) > > The long and short of my question: My X server works wonderfully now, I'm no > longer stuck in vga mode, but I'm wondering if I need to update those other > packages that couldn't be updated due to dependency problems. Should I just > quit now, and not worry about the other stuff? Is it possible that an X > upgrade doesn't entail upgrading all the X packages at the Branden Web site? >
The xservers only depend on xserver-common to be 3.3.4. You should be fine with leaving the rest as is. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
