Gonna try the stuff now. I started this again on this machine (other than it was totally not working), I was going to send you an example of DBD::CVS for your auto tracking thing (you've probably already got it working by now) :) What's that saying: the road to hell is paved with good intentions
Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Jay Salzman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] jay and dselect > 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
