On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:56:54PM +0200, 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?
Use apt-get to do this kinds of things. So you can do: apt-get install gdm And everything will get ok. Another thing (I'm not completly sure) is that task-x-window-system is only a virtual package which depends on others. This means if you remove it, all the X window system won't be removed. Bye! > > -- > Robin Faichney > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jmmv.cjb.net
