On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:30:41AM +1100, Mick Boda wrote: > Hi all, > > I found 4,2 for debian at http://people.debian.org and when I selected > the link it prompted me to install the software, which I did.
Did you find this with a web browser? If so, it probably prompted you to save the file, not to install the software. As far as I know, most (all that I've seen) Linux web browsers don't offer to install software for you. There are very good reasons: it's a bit hard to recognise what files are valid installation candidates, the browser would need to have distro-specific hooks into the package management, and probably some way of resolving the dependencies. > Now what? When I startx it stills says it's using 4.1? Is there > another step? If the above is correct, you've saved the file somewhere on your harddrive, but not installed it. First you need to figure out where this is. Check your home directory for files ending in .deb with likely sounding names - like xserver-xfree86-4.2.deb or something like that. Failing that, try 'locate deb' and 'find -name "*.deb"' Once you've found the files, you install them with the command "dpkg -i package1.deb package2.deb ..." where package1.deb and so on are the filenames. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
