Martin Kacerovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I run potato and I've installed Xfree 4.1.and I get a dependency problem > > with the package libfreetype6, from which xlibs, xterm and xbase-client > > depend. I downloades and installed this package. Then it appears that this > > package depends on libc>=2.2. which I downlooaded too because it's not > > included in the potato CDs. When I try to install this package other > > conflict and dependency problems occur, so I wonder if it will become a > > never ending chain. > > > > I've thought about upgrading to Woody to get rid of those dependency > > problems, but I would prefer to stay with potato as I'm still novice in > > debian and in linux. > > > > What do you suggest me to do? Are potato and Xfree 4.1 really compatible? > > > > Marcel > > > Hi Marcel, > XFree 4 and Potato aren't compatible because it needs new libc6 (it is the > main thing in each debian distribution i think) > so if you attempt to upgrade the libc6 you must use testing version so in > this moment you are destructing the stable > base of potato distribution (mail me anybody if i am wrong) ( and libc6 isn't > the only thing X4 needs .... ;) ) > i had the same problem that's why i've upgraded to woody and that's my advice > to you > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > I am Martin Kacerovsky, student of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics > at the Charles University in Prague, in the Czech Republic, in Europe, > on Earth, in the Universe where Linux operating system rules... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Take a look at http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha/xf410_potato/ Using these debs it should be possible to make XFree 4.1 work on potato. -- Harald Iwe
