Hi Zorro, Thanks for the reply. The first news item regarding the release of Fink KDE packages included instructions that specifically mentioned that system-xfree86 had to be replaced with xfree86-base, although I don't see any mention of that in the current instructions, as you point out. But I started my installation attempts with the first release, so I believed that system-xfree had to be removed. If it didn't, then I can try again with my Aqua version of the xfree 4.2 installer. Or if you can tell me how, I can try that anyway, then try replacing system-xfree86 with xfree86-base in a more successful way than I did before.
> ---------- > From: Zorro > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:40 PM > To: Laine Lee > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [Fink-beginners] Can't get X to start at all after > trying KDE > > At 5:03 PM -0500 6/11/02, Laine Lee wrote: > >I had a working installation of system-Xfree86 with WindowMaker as my > window > >manager until I tried following the instructions for installing KDE. > > > >At first I got the message that xfree86-base couldn't be installed > because > >of an existing installation in /usr/X11R6 and in /etc/X11. > > > >Should I have done something to remove that existing installation other > than > >sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6 and sudo rm -rf /etc/X11? > > > >If so, what? > > > >Anyway, after doing that, I was able to complete the rest of the steps. I > >couldn't find a kde.log in /tmp after replacing the start line in > .xinitrc > >as instructed. > > > I don't understand > Where on http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php does it > say to trash your xfree installation? > > _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
