On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Robin Faichney wrote: > I have Debian 2.2, and would like to substitute gdm for xdm. > > I'm a recent convert to Debian, and not entirely at ease with the > package management utilities. Using dselect, and selecting gdm, I'm > told that it conflicts with xdm which will therefore be removed. But > task-x-window-system depends on xdm, so that will be uninstalled too, > which is obviously not what's wanted. I tried to force it not to > remove task-* by hitting Q instead of <return> in the dependencies > list, but that seemed to have no effect. How can I get gdm properly > installed?
There is no problem removing task-x-window-systems. It is only a so called meta-package, "containig" only dependencies to other packages, so that they get installed. After removing it installing gdm should be no problem. Martin -- If windows is the answer, it must have been a stupid question. For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
