On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:57:06AM +0800, Daniel wrote: > Hello all, > I am setting up sarge with video unsupported by xfree86 4.2. I know I > can use the install script, but I wondered if I should turn the source > into a deb file so I could remove and upgrade easily at a later date? > (presuming it's not easily removed and not worrying about the time it > takes as it's a newish P4 2.4) > > I added to my sources.list > deb-src ftp://ftp.ens.utulsa.edu/pub/xfree86/4.3.0/source/ ./ > and did apt-get update only to get .../Sources.gz: no such file or > directory (there are multiple files there X430src-1.tgz to > X430src-7.tgz) > > It seemed like a great idea but I'm floundering - can anyone give me a > point in the right direction please? Is this a worthwhile exercise or > should I use the script? (how do I uninstall it later?) > > Thanks very much, > Daniel.
See thread 'Is a backport of XFree86 4.2 or 4.3 for woody available?' - yesterday, I think. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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