Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Do you want to erase any previously downloaded .deb files? [Y/n] Y
Press enter to continue.
I presume the capital letter in the Y/n about means that by default I should reply with a 'Y'. Actually I tried both with the same result. In both cases when I press 'enter' it does nothing and simply jumps to section 4 below, as:
Debian `dselect' package handling frontend.
0. [A]ccess Choose the access method to use.
1. [U]pdate Update list of available packages, if possible.
2. [S]elect Request which packages you want on your system.
3. [I]nstall Install and upgrade wanted packages.
* 4. [C]onfig Configure any packages that are unconfigured.
5. [R]emove Remove unwanted software.
6. [Q]uit Quit dselect.
I also ran fink list as follows:
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% fink list
Reading package info...
Information about 954 packages read in 14 seconds.
........etc.
(i) xfree86-base 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
xfree86-base-sh 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
(i) xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
xgalaga 2.0.34-1 Clone of the classic game of galaga
xinvaders 2.1.2-2 Space Invaders clone for X
xless 1.7-1 X-Window based replacement for more/less
xlightoff 1.1-1 Light switching game for X11
xmahjongg 3.5-11 X-Windows version of Mah Jongg
xml-dom-pm 1.39-1 Perl ext that adds new style to XML::Parser
xml-parser-pm 2.31-4 Perl ext interface to XML parser/expat
xml-regexp-pm 0.03-2 Perl modules for XML tokens
xmms 1.2.7-3 Multimedia player for the X Window System
xmms-bin 1.2.7-3 Multimedia player for the X Window System
xmms-gdancer 0.4.5-2 XMMS plugin featuring dancing characters
xmms-shlibs 1.2.7-3 Multimedia player for the X Window System
xmountains 2.6-1 Fractal landscape generator
xpdf 1.01-2 Viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF)...
xpilot 4.5.4-1 Multi-player 2D space game
xtraceroute 0.9.0-2 Graphical traceroute including globe
xv 3.10a-2 Image viewer
yafc 0.7.10-1 Enhanced ftp client, supporting ssh2 (sftp)
i zlib 1.1.4-1 Compression library
and then ran tried ap-get, but this then gave me:
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% sudo apt-get install xfree86-rootles
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xfree86-rootles
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods%
Note too that my fink list gives TWO xfree86-rootles items, one marked with (i) � presumably meaning 'installed', the other without an '(i)'
What gives here????
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 09:10 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
Try reinstalling xfree86-rootless, since that's where the missing X comes from.On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 01:41, Julian F.Woods wrote:Thanks for that. These two commands give the following:
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% fink list -i xfree86
Reading package info...
Information about 954 packages read in 17 seconds.
(i) xfree86-base 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities,
clients and...
(i) xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities,
clients and...
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% fink list xfree86
Reading package info...
Information about 954 packages read in 14 seconds.
system-xfree86 4.2-5 Placeholder package for manually
installe...
(i) xfree86-base 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities,
clients and...
xfree86-base-sh 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities,
clients and...
(i) xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities,
clients and...
xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities,
clients and...
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods%
I seem to have the key xfree86 packages installed but they do not work
and as you see below, I don't have the 'X' in my path
(/usr/X11R6/bin/X). Does this mean that the install is faulty? Do I
need to install any of the others?
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 09:35 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
fink list -i xfree86 will show all of your installed xfree86 packages. fink list xfree86 will show all of the xfree86 packages. -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Julian F.Woods wrote:I thought I installed both the base and 'rootless' but maybe not. I
don't recall the word 'threaded'. How do I check which version I have
installed?
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 02:32 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Julian F.Woods wrote:Many thanks. I tried the various options you suggested and this gaveWhen you say you installed xfree86 from dselect, which package
me the following:
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% printenv PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/
usr/
X11R6/bin
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% startx -- -rootless
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server
"/usr/X11R6/bin/X" in PATH
exactly
did you install? If it was one of Fink's xfree86-* packages, be
warned that to run local X programs, you need *both* the base and
rootless packages. IE, if you were installing the threaded X
package,
you would install xfree86-rootless-threaded (along with
xfree86-base-threaded, and their shared libs), otherwise you would
install xfree86-rootless (along with xfree86-base).
If you *just* installed xfree86-base or xfree86-base-threaded, that
would be your problem.
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