[ale] no X windows because of 2.2->2.4 upgrade............

[Mazukna, Thomas]

Morning,

I see you chose the dist-upgrade path. It removed all of the x stuff.

here is some basics http://tinyplanet.ca/pubs/debian/html/c284.html

You will need to install the majority of the x packages by hand, cause
task-* packages may also be broken. 
have you tried looking for packages using aptitude ? It will tell you 
of available packages and installed packages so you can see what is missing.


Tomas


-----Original Message-----
From: Courtney Thomas [mailto:ccthomas at flash.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:07 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] no X windows because of 2.2->2.4 upgrade............


Greetings !

Under Debian-2.2.19pre17, to upgrade my system, I..............

	apt-get install dist-upgrade

so now I have no X window system, by which I mean [among other things]
there is not even a 
startx script extant. I've not put all this together but reading man X I
see there are quite a few pieces. 

Please advise about the least painful way of restoring this
functionality, but please not "get a CD and start over", because part of
this exercise is to learn how to manually construct an upgrade. 

If anyone knows of a URL that delineates in detail this procedure I'd be
most gratified to hear of it.

Thanks,

Courtney

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