Hello. I'm about to upgrade my X from 3.3.6-11potato to 4.03 by way of the debs at http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha and using apt-get. I've done the apt-get upgrade and started the apt-get dist-upgrade and became somewhat queasy when the list of packages to remove came up (below). I would hate to destroy a perfectly good running X. >>topdog2:/etc/X11# apt-get dist-upgrade >>Reading Package Lists... Done >>Building Dependency Tree... Done >>Calculating Upgrade... Done >>The following packages will be REMOVED: >> blt-dev gdk-imlib-dev libforms0.88 libgtk1.2-dev olvwm task-gnome-apps >> task-gnome-desktop task-gnome-games task-gnome-net task-tcltk-dev >> task-x-window-system task-x-window-system-core tk8.2-dev tktable-dev >> xbase-clients xdm xf86setup xfmail xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base >> xfonts-cjk xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable xlib6g-dev xpm4g xviewg-dev >>The following NEW packages will be installed: >> libxaw6 libxaw7 xlibs >>The following packages have been kept back >> xfs xserver-common xterm >>7 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 27 to remove and 3 not upgraded. >>Need to get 5978kB of archives. After unpacking 29.1MB will be freed. >>Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n >>Abort.
How much of the above X stuff will be replaced by new X and what about gnome being removed? Will I have to now recompile gnome for the new X 4.03? Will I be able to re-install the programs listed above that are not provided by the X packages, like xfmail for instance? Any other info would be appreciated. thanks, tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]