> this may sound like a stupid question, but I am setting up linux using the > Debian 2.1 cdrom and the "learning Debian GNU/Linux book. I am now at the > point that I should Install X (page 95). However, every time I type > xf86config, I get told this is an unknown command. I also cannot find this > file on either the computer or the cdrom. help!! how do I load this? >
I is probably in the xbase-clients package. I guess you have to be root in order to run it. You might try dpkg -l xbase-clients in order to verify if this package is installed: [03:37:40 tmp]$ dpkg -l xbase-clients Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii xbase-clients 4.0.3-3 miscellaneous X clients [03:38:09 tmp]$ > Thanks for your help > John Torrance > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)