As part of my efforts to get fonts looking better on my KDE 3.1.4 Woody system, I want to update the XFree86 4.1.0-16 that comes with Woody, to the XFree86 4.2.1-14 that backports.org makes available.
(There are comments in the archive to the effect that anti-aliasing isn't properly supported by XFree86 4.1.0) With this deb source line : deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable xfree86 running "apt-get update; apt-get -s upgrade" gives me messages saying a number of X packages will be kept back : ===================< cut >=================== glimmer:/etc/apt# apt-get -s upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back x-window-system-core xbase-clients xlibmesa3 xlibs xlibs-dev xprt xterm 22 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Inst debconf (1.2.35 www.backports.org) Inst lbxproxy (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst libdps1 (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst libxaw6 (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst libxaw7 (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst proxymngr (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst twm (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xdm (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xfs (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xfwp (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xfree86-common (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xserver-common (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xnest (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xvfb (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst x-window-system (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xutils (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xfonts-100dpi (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xfonts-75dpi (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xfonts-base (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xfonts-scalable (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) Inst xspecs (4.2.1-14.backports.org.1 www.backports.org) ===================< cut >=================== I'd be grateful for anyone's advice here, before I screw up my system. Am I supposed to do a dist-upgrade to resolve this ? Would it be better to "apt-get install" some particular meta or base package, instead of "upgrading" ? Thanks in advance Nick Boyce Bristol, UK