Re: XFree86-4

[John L. <ch...@la...>]

Hi David

On 09-Mar-02, you wrote:

> Hi ,
> I am in the process of updating my working debian 2.2r3 (originally
> from CD's) installation with Xfree-4. (Is it worth the effort?) I have
> used an apt-get install xserver -Xfree86 command and been told I need
> to download 31mb of stuff and 57mb will subsequently be removed from
> my installation. Things like abiword, gnome files etc are to be
> removed. Does this sound correct. I don't want to go ahead and find I
> need to start again. I pay for my online time per minute so I would
> like an alternative method if possible, is there one. (downloading
> seems alot slower that using my miggy, any way of speeding this up)
> apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade both take ages, is there an
> easier way of upgrading to an up todate setup? Any help would be
> great.

Sorry didn't answer sooner, had a few problems this end. I see you had
an answer on linux-apus m/l, I agree with this, update the apt, dselect
and dpkg packages 

apt-get install apt dselect dpkg -f

Then try the dist-upgrade again, should work better now.

Regards
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John

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