Andrew M.A. Cater said: > effect. I may have a "mixture" of 3.3.6 and 4.0.9 packages. Help > me clear this one up to restore my X please!
ive had mixtures before too.. i usually remove everything and purge everything and apt-get clean and reinstall. run through the package listing and look for something like xfree86-common for xfree 3.3.6 or xserver-common for xfree 4 and remove/purge it. this should remove EVERYTHING that depends on X. all the apps, all the servers etc. i purge it all out and start fresh. before reinstalling anything though scan the package list. incase you don't know the commands, this is what i usually do: apt-get remove xserver-common dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | awk '{print $1}' | xargs dpkg --purge (note the above dpkg line is 1 line not 2) apt-get clean (start reinstalling apps here) worked for me everytime, i rather keep things simple and redownload then trying to work with dependencies. note the above may remove a ton of stuff, if you don't like that then don't do it. it will also purge all the config files and stuff, so backup what you think you may want to keep. nate