On Tuesday, February 06, 2007, at 04:19PM, "Levi Bard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As an aside , installing xephyr on Debian from unstable seems to be a >> complete non-starter without ripping out all of your other x apps and >> windowing system and a replacing a whole host of other packages as well. So >> I tried XNest instead which has the benefit of being installable and >> working. Unfortunately not being able to find ab-sh-init.sh renders this all >> a bit redundant. > >This is contrary to my experience. I was able to install xephyr on >debian/sid with zero problems ( apt-get install xserver-xephyr ).
Considering I'm not running the unstable sid release I'd expect this to be the case. It would appear that trying to install Xephyr on stable results in a load of packages being required to upgrade to sid. > >> I also found that the installation script fails on debian when trying to add >> the scratchbox user if the user is already a valid unix user. Well duh! It >> doesn't look to me like it causes any problems - it's the last step in the >> process - but even so, does it imply I should be sticking to Ubuntu? > >This is also contrary to my experience - I used my normal username (on >debian/sid) for my scratchbox, and it was perfectly happy. I haven't >used the very latest installation script, however, so this behavior >may have changed. Perhaps a defect in the latest script then. Andy _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
