Re: Trouble with X Windows

2000-01-25 Thread Joe Block
Howard Mann wrote: > > > > Michael Jessop wrote: > > > > > > > > ...I do not understand the concept of how to point apt to a specific > > > > package > > > > or group of packages... for instance, to update all of x windows, how do > > > > I tell it where to look for the package(s)? > > > > > > >

Re: Trouble with X Windows

2000-01-25 Thread Howard Mann
> > Michael Jessop wrote: > > > > > > ...I do not understand the concept of how to point apt to a specific > > > package > > > or group of packages... for instance, to update all of x windows, how do > > > I tell it where to look for the package(s)? > > > > > > Thank you. > > > Mike >Howard Man

Re: Trouble with X Windows

2000-01-25 Thread Joe Block
Howard Mann wrote: > > Michael Jessop wrote: > > > > ...I do not understand the concept of how to point apt to a specific package > > or group of packages... for instance, to update all of x windows, how do I > > tell it where to look for the package(s)? > > > > Thank you. > > Mike > > Try this :

re: Trouble with X Windows

2000-01-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
At 12:27 PM 1/25/00 -0500, Michael Jessop wrote: ...I do not understand the concept of how to point apt to a specific package or group of packages... for instance, to update all of x windows, how do I tell it where to look for the package(s)? apt uses the /etc/apt/sources.list file. It points t

Re: Trouble with X Windows

2000-01-25 Thread Howard Mann
Michael Jessop wrote: > > ...I do not understand the concept of how to point apt to a specific package > or group of packages... for instance, to update all of x windows, how do I > tell it where to look for the package(s)? > > Thank you. > Mike Try this : 0 edit /etc/apt/sources.list, adding

re: Trouble with X Windows

2000-01-25 Thread Michael Jessop
...I do not understand the concept of how to point apt to a specific package or group of packages... for instance, to update all of x windows, how do I tell it where to look for the package(s)? Thank you. Mike

Re: Trouble with X Windows...

2000-01-25 Thread aphro
upgrade your X see www.debian.org/~vincent slink has a really old X. nate On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Michael Jessop wrote: mjesso >...I just converted over (well, initialized my disk and started from mjesso >scratch) from RedHat 6.0 to Debian 2.1 (Slink). I cannot get XWindows to mjesso >run corr