This one time, at band camp, Mick Boda wrote: >Okay, I cd'ed to /var/cache/apt/archives and typed dpkg -i *.*
You don't really want to do that. >Lots happened, alot KDE suff was extracted and updated, I didn't see >any reference to Xfree86 4.3 though. I added the relevant URL for >Xfree 4.3 to my sources list and apt -get seems happy to go and >retrieve the packages. /var/cache/apt/archives is the local cache of everything that apt has ever downloaded. These packages tend to be already installed on your system. So, unless you typed "apt-get -d install xserver-xfree86" (the -d is for download only, do not actually install) then the latest version of xserver-xfree86 (as determined by apt) will be installed. To check what version is currently installed, try dpkg -l xserver-xfree86 >But when I type startx, I recieve the same error messages and Xfree >version 4.1.0 being used. What's the error message and how do you know that it's 4.1.0 that's starting? >How do I; > >1. Check that 4.3 is infact installed dpkg -l <package> >2. Get Xwindows to use 4.3 instead of 4.1 check to make sure that the 4.3 package repository is being updated when you run apt-get update and that it contains a newer version of the XFree86 packages. Then apt-get install xserver-xfree86 or even apt-get upgrade to make sure the latest packages get installed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
