I did not install x-window-system. I was hoping to do a full from-source build of X, not an apt-get install. My reason for this being more out of curiosity than ease of installation.
I guess my ultimate goal is just to upgrade to 4.3 from whatever is offered on the Debian 3.0r1 CD 1 ISO (4.2?), but I figured I'd try and have some fun :-) Thanks, Aaron On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 19:31, Benjamin Reed wrote: > On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 7:26 PM, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > This doesn't answer your question, but would it not be easier to use a > > X > > 4.3 backport to stable? Checking with apt-get.org shows a couple of > > sources. > > Did you install "x-window-system" ? I believe it's a meta-package > that's supposed to install everything you need for xfree86 on debian. > > -- > We put a lot of thought into our defaults. We like them. If we > didn't, we would have made something else be the default. So keep > your cotton-pickin' hands off our defaults. Don't touch. Consider > them mandatory. "Mandatory defaults" has a nice ring to it. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
