Le 2000-07-31 16:24:07 +0100, Jean-Jack M. Riethoven écrivait : > I am relatively new to installing my own Debian system (2.1r4). Until now, > I have managed quite well with dselect. However, I haven't been able to get > X up and running yet on my video card (a Diamond Viper 550 16Mb).
What happened exactly ? Do you get an error message when launching "startx" ? Have you installed the relevant X server (xserver-svga) ? Did you try anXious to configure X ? > Now coming to my real question: how interchangeble are the installations > done via dpkg/dselect and 'normal' installations via tarballs? I would like > to keep dependency information and such, and an updated list of installed > software for dselect. The installation via a tarball will lose all dependency information. This software will be completely ignored by dpkg/dselect, and might get overwritten at some points. To use non-debian packages, you might want to look at alien to convert RPM or other packages format to DEB. It will enable you to still manage the package using dselect. But X 4.01 might be too complex to convert that way. And it will probably also forget dependency information. Hope it helps. -- Jean-Philippe Guérard
