This is one of the things that has driven be buggy about Debian. Of three
attempted installations on my home machine, an old HP Vectra VL and a
Toshiba 430CDT portable, only the Vectra presented a successful installation.
I had the problem quoted below on the 430CDT after the base installation. I
tried the apt-get statement cited in this email response--apt said the
task-x-window-system-core was installed. I did apt-cache show to see if
there were fixed fonts of any description on the machine and there were
not. I also did a find with the same result. So I did apt-get update, then
tried apt-cache show again. Nothing. I tried apt-get search xfonts* and
still came up with nothing. Nichego. Nada.
Today or tomorrow I will try RH7. That one, RH7, installed without a hitch
on my home machine. Why is that? Why should one distribution install and
another one will not? I presented my problems to this list and got some
well-thought-out responses, but they didn't help.
I would really like to switch to Debian because of dpkg and apt, and
because Red Hat seems to be intent on becoming the Micr$oft of Linux distros.
At 09:19 AM 01/19/2001 +0000, Frank Copeland wrote:
On 19 Jan 01 06:58:32 GMT, Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>in my trying to apt all the right files for my laptop to run x, i seem to
>have missed somthing.
>
>when i attemt to run x...
>
>"Fatal Server error:
>could not open default font 'fixed'"
>
>what does this mean, and what do i need to do to fix it?
It means you've neglected to install a necessary font package. The
simplest solution may be to 'apt-get install task-x-window-system-core'
which *should* pull in everything you need.
Frank
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