To answer my own questions: >>>>> I wrote:
Doug> It seems that the conflict between the xpm and the xpm4.7 Doug> packages in the unstable/binary-i386 tree results in Doug> difficulties in getting both xfig and fvwm installed. ... Doug> Is it possible to generate an xfig that uses xpm4.7? Yes. Just get the sources for xfig from the source tree, expand them and run make install Doug> Alternatively, is there a mechanism under which the xpm4.7 Doug> package can claim to provide xpm? I still don't know the answer to that. You can run dpkg -i --ignore-depends=xpm xfig-3.1.3-5.deb and the xfig package will be installed. However, on my system it won't run because it needs the missing version of the xpm libraries.
