Margarete Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> I want to install Xfree86 4.1.0 on my laptop.
What version of Debian are you running? Did you do a complete install, or do you just have the (extremely minimal) "base system"? MH> I tried running the Xinstall.sh with the -check option to find out MH> witch version I need. Here is the output: MH> " MH> Checking what OS you're running... MH> uname reports 'Linux' version '2.2.19pre17', architecture 'i486'. MH> Xinstall.sh: file: command not found MH> Object format is 'a.out'. Xinstall,sh: strings: command not found MH> MH> Linux a.out is no longer supported MH> " This output suggests that you're missing the standard-priority packages 'file' and 'binutils', which you really should have on a working system. MH> Besides that, what are the advantages/disadvantages of GNOME/KDE? Pretty, arguably easier to use than other ad-hoc X interfaces, very resource-intensive in terms of both disk space and memory. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
