On Jan 23, 2005, at 6:32 PM, Michal Young wrote:
Oops, my last bit of information regarding configuration was wrong ... it was from a different laptop. I must not have been thinking clearly (which isn't all that unusual).
On the machine in which the X dependencies seem to be messed up, here is what dpkg says (I am not sure how to interpret the columns, despite reading the man pages):
dyna6-250:~ michal$ dpkg -l xfree86*
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
+++-===============-===============- ==============================================
in xfree86 <none> (no description available)
ri xfree86-base 4.2.1.1-4 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and data
ii xfree86-base-sh 4.2.1.1-4 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and data
un xfree86-base-th <none> (no description available)
un xfree86-base-th <none> (no description available)
pn xfree86-rootles <none> (no description available)
ii xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-4 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and data
un xfree86-rootles <none> (no description available)
un xfree86-rootles <none> (no description available)
in xfree86-shlibs <none> (no description available)
--Michal
It does indeed look like you've got some partially installed packages. Try
sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends xfree86-base xfree86-base-shlibs xfree86-rootless xfree86-rootless-shlibs xfree86 xfree86-shlibs
to flush it out, and then you can install xfree86.
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