begin Jay Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ok, so I upgraded my test machine to woody. Now I'm getting "startx: > command not found". Here are my questions: make sure these packages are installed:
ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-14 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure ii xfreecd 0.7.8-5 a GTK-based CD Player ii xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-14 the XFree86 X server ii xbase-clients 4.1.0-14 miscellaneous X clients startx belongs to xbase-clients. if they're installed, make sure their installed fully and configured (see my debian package tutorial for more info on this). > 1) How do I determine the version(s) of X installed on my system try: X -probeonly > X.out look at the first few lines. > 2) Is there a new way to start X (different than startx)? plenty of ways. but you should use startx. > Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main here's mine if you want to use it: deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ woody main non-free contrib deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free # Security deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main # Wine apt-get -b source wine deb http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main deb-src http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main > Here is: > > debian:~# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following packages have been kept back > nethack > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. this means that nethack depends on another package which isn't currently on your system. debian normally won't do that unless you specifically tell it that it's ok. debian always errs on the side of caution. to install the most recent version of nethack along with all its dependencies (even the ones that aren't currently on your system), do: apt-get install nethack btw, when upgrading software, you use apt-get update. when upgrading an operating system (as in going from potato to woody), you use apt-get dist-upgrade. so at this point, you want to use: dselect update && apt-get upgrade or you can even alias it: alias updatesys="dselect update && apt-get upgrade" > I'm not sure where to go from here > Jay just remember this next time i post a perl question. ;-) pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
