Re: Installing new software

2002-11-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Noah" == Noah L Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Noah> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:40:55PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad Noah> wrote: >> I actually believe that an upgrade to Woody will not upgrade >> your X Server unless you ask for it (just like it will not >> upgrade your k

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-03 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:40:55PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > I actually believe that an upgrade to Woody will not upgrade your X > Server unless you ask for it (just like it will not upgrade your > kernel), but I cannot remember if that is a lie. It will upgrade it, but not accross major vers

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Hi, I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a David> full woody set of CD's but am unable to get XFree86 4 to David> work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use any of the other David> software on the woody cds bec

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-03 Thread nate
David Jones said: > Hi, > I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a full woody set of CD's > but am unable to get XFree86 4 to work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use > any of the other software on the woody cds because the system always wants > to upgrade everything including X, which th

Installing new software

2002-11-03 Thread David Jones
Hi, I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a full woody set of CD's but am unable to get XFree86 4 to work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use any of the other software on the woody cds because the system always wants to upgrade everything including X, which then won't work. How can I u

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-02 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:05:08PM +0100, David Jones wrote: > Hi, > I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a full woody set of CD's but am >unable to get XFree86 4 to work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use > any of the other software on the woody cds because the system always wants to

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Shyamal" == Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shyamal> Here, I even fired up the old laptop to make sure I'm not Shyamal> lying to myself about this: > $dpkg -l 'xfree*common' 'xserver*common' > ii xfree86-common 4.1.0-16 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"David" == David Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Hi, I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a David> full woody set of CD's but am unable to get XFree86 4 to David> work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use any of the other David> software on the woody cds bec

Re: Installing new software

2002-11-02 Thread Sacha Chua
David Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I will come back to the problem with X later but at the moment I > would just like to use the other updated packages. Is this possible > and if so how? You may want to check out pinning. man apt_preferences for more details. Pinning allows you to easily r

Installing new software

2002-11-02 Thread David Jones
Hi, I am running Debian Potato with XFree86 3. I have a full woody set of CD's but am unable to get XFree86 4 to work at all. Unfortunately, I can't use any of the other software on the woody cds because the system always wants to upgrade everything including X, which then won't work. How can I u

Re: Installing new software under (debian/storm linux)

2000-12-19 Thread Tor Slettnes
> "dem0nline" == dem0nline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dem0nline> I just installed Storm Linux and I am have a question dem0nline> about adding new software to my machine. When I run dem0nline> dpkg -i someapp.deb it tells me that it fails about a dem0nline> dozen dependencies