Re: gnome dependancies and X still broken

[Ron Farrer <rbf@toxic.magnesium.net>]

Paul Slootman (paul@wau.mis.ah.nl) wrote:

> I had something similar.
> 
> I tried simply installing a new X packge by hand with dpkg; at least
> that told me what the problem was (some dependency wasn't fulfilled,
> although AFAIK apt should have been capable of handling it itself).
> Do you have xserver-common installed. for example? Also try installing
> xlib6g by hand.  You might even try reverting to dselect for once :-)

At this point I can't install ANYTHING with apt... I don't really like the
menu driven dselect, I find it a little too clumsy.

You'd think a "apt-get -f dist-upgrade" would upgrade everything, but it
doesn't!?!

I tried a "apt-get install xserver-common" but all it does is complain
about the gnome crap... Doesn't even meantion xserver-common!


Ron
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