Re: xserver-xfree86 fiasco!

[Kent West]

Kevin Mark wrote:

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:12:12PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
 

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 04:04:04PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
   

Kevin Mark wrote:
     

Hmm, I just did an "apt-cache search xserver-xfree86" and didn't see any 
packages that match the deb name you use above. Perhaps you're pulling 
from a non-Debian repository, and their packages are broken?
     

Hi Kent,
This is what I get. Not sure what you did?
xserver-xfree86:
 Installed: (none)
 Candidate: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1
 Version Table:
    4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 0
       500 http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages
       500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
       500 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
       500 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
    4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 0
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    4.3.0-7 0
       500 http://ftp.debian.org sarge/main Packages
    4.2.1-6.ipv6.r0.6 0
       500 http://debian.concepts.nl sarge/ipv6 Packages
-Kev
   

Hi all,
I used dpkg -X xserver-xfree86 to install the files for X to run BUT
xserver-xfree86 is still not in the status database. It exits with a
error #64.  And I can not install x-window-system and x-window-system-core.
Does anyone know where I can get complete info about this apt/dpkg error
short of reading source code!
-Kev
 

Ahhh. dpkg is used to install single packages, and doesn't take care of 
dependencies. You want to use a front-end for dpkg, such as apt-get or 
aptitude. Try "apt-get install x-window-system".

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Kent
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