Debian XFree86 3-> 4 upgrade question
Alex Satrapa
grail at goldweb.com.au
Tue Feb 4 12:12:46 EST 2003
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 10:44 , Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au wrote:
> Will it be as simple as apt-get, or am I likely to spend the rest of
> the evening
> rebuilding stuff?
My experience was that the easiest migration path is to completely
remove XFree86 3.x, then install XFree86 4.x. However, in keeping with
previous threads about Debian stable vs unstable, my upgrade was on
unstable, at about the time the migration issues were being sorted out.
Out of the four times I attempted to upgrade, I ended up with 3 installs
where XFree86 refused to work - either at all or completely. The fourth
time, I completely removed XFree86, then installed the new version. My
success was probably more related to the state of the available packages
than the particular strategy I used though.
Installing the new version should be simple enough - just apt-get
install mplayer - all the dependencies will fall in place!
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