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On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:11:00PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> Anyway, here I am with a machine that comes up under linux, but
> without X. And I can't quite figure out what to apt-get to make X
> work. I tried saying "apt-get install xterm", which installed a whole
> bunch of stuff, but doesn't seem to have given me anything I recognize
> for configuring and starting X.
apt-get install task-x-window-system
Debian supplies a text-and-ncurses-based configurator for X called
anXious, which is in the xviddetect package. So apt-get install
xviddetect.
This assumes you're running unstable. If you're running stable, you'll
still want to apt-get install task-x-window-system, but no configuration
tool is supplied other than the xf86config/XF86Setup combo which comes
with X. It appears that there are two programs with unstable called
xf86config and xf86cfg; if I'm not mistaken, these come with X itself,
and the first is similar to the tool of the same name that came with X3,
while the second is, I *think*, a graphical tool.
Also note, that, when you're trying to find out which package a
particular file is in so that you can install it, 'apt-cache search' and
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages are your friends. To find out
to which package a file already installed on your system belongs, use
'dpkg -S <filename>'. To see a list of files in an installed package,
use 'dpkg -L <packagename>'. To manually unpack a .deb file (say, if
you want to examine the contents, or check install scripts before
they're run as root), change to the directory where you want it unpacked,
and run 'ar -x <filename.deb>'; you'll be left with three fairly
self-explanatory files in the current directory.
Any other questions, or if I wasn't clear, just ask. <tongue
location="in cheek" manner="firmly">I'm always willing to help somebody
switch to the One True Distribution. ;-)
--
Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should
be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and
this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin
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