RE: [Plplot-devel] dev tk problems with SuSe 7.2

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> [...] Anyway, the "problem", is almost surely an issue with xauth.  Our
> sysops got xauth working here, so I was never plagued by xauth-itis
> while I was running SuSE on our network.

Long ago Maurice alluded to the same xauth/Tcl problem, but I have never
encountered it with Debian.  I do have an .Xauthority file in my home
directory which was updated fairly recently so I believe xauth is running on
my system.  It looks like the Debian maintainer of that package has set it
up properly.

The rest of this is not a PLplot topic, but I think you might still be
interested since you have recently had to change distributions.

I wish Debian woody would go final so I could fully recommend it to my
friends.  But if you have similar needs to my own then it is the
distribution for you.  If you have further interest, the thing to do is to
install a minimal Debian potato system, then edit /etc/apt/sources.list to
point to woody rather than potato, then use

apt-get update; apt-get install apt-get; apt-get dist-upgrade

To turn your system into woody.

Debian woody is still quite active with about 10 packages upgraded each day
as it slowly converges to the final version. But it has been stable (in the
sense of nothing major broken) for me for many months with outstanding
quality assurance on the huge number of packages in the distribution so I am
quite happy I upgraded from potato (and from RedHat before that).

Alan