On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 18:51:49 -0800 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to get a friends Dell laptop up and running. > > I ran "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade" this afternoon, and > everything appeared to work/install.
You don't give enough information. What are you tracking or
upgrading to? Testing? Unstable?
> Until I tried to run startx, which gave the "startx not found"
>
> When looking through the installed packages, I noticed that
> xbase-clients was not installed.
>
> In attempting to "aptitude install xbase-clients" it claims to be
> dependant on libvx1.
There is no package called libvx1. There are packages called
libvx1.25 and libvx1.27c102 but xbase-clients does not depend
upon either.
There *is* a package called libxv1 (note the transposition
of letters), and the version of xbase-clients that's in
sarge and sid does depend on it. I'm going to presume from
here on that that's what you meant, and it was a typo. If
I'm wrong, please jump in and correct me.
> In trying to get libvx1 installed, it claims to be
> conflicting with xlibs.
libxv1 in sarge and sid requires an xlibs with a version greater
than 4.1.0. If that's the version of xlibs you have installed,
you'll have problems. It *should* want to upgrade that too,
though, rather than trying to remove xlibs altogether. And if
you're tracking sarge or sid, I wouldn't expect you to have
anything from X 4.1.0 or less anyway. So I doubt that's what's
going on.
Could you quote the actual error message, rather than just
saying "it conflicts"?
-c
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