On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 06:42:45PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I have upgraded my hamm to slink, but I am a bit confused. > > First, I thought the packages have been renamed to the following: > xfntbase -> xfonts-base > xfnt75 -> xfonts-75dpi > xfnt100 -> xfonts-100dpi > xfntscl -> xfonts-scalable > xfntbig -> xfonts-cjk > xfntcyr -> xfonts-cyrillic > xfntpex -> xfonts-pex > xslib -> xlib6-static > xslibg -> xlib6g-static
Yes, that looks like the list from /usr/doc/xfree86-common/README.Debian. > But, after upgrading to slink, dpkg --list is still showing with > the old names. Should I manually install the new packages and remove the > old packages?? apt-get install <newpackagename> should do the trick. > Will apt-get install xfonts-base automatically remove the > package with the old name xfntbase?? Yes. > Is it safe for me to remove the package xbase in slink?? Yes. Read xbase's extended description (or /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian). > What other packages are there that I should remove?? That's all. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. "Supernatural" is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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