[ltp] xfree 4.3 on woody

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 22:53:31 +0200, Gregor Rojec-Goldmann wrote:
> Tino Keitel wrote:
> >On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 21:32:39 +0200, Gregor Rojec-Goldmann wrote:
> >
> >>I installed XFree86 4.3 on my T30 with debian woody. I am very
> >>happy with it since 4.3 the radeon driver works much better than
> >>4.2 in a multi display environment like using it with a beamer or
> >>in xinerama mode with an additional display.
> >>
> >>I used Daniel Stone's backported packages, which were also
> >>mentioned in this forum: deb
> >>http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./
> >>
> >>The problem is that not all packages could be installed. xlib and
> >>several others had problems:
> >>
> >>~# apt-get install xlibs
> >>...
> >>Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >> xlibs: Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.1) but it is not going to be 
> >>installed
> >>        Depends: libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.3-5) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed
> >>E: Sorry, broken packages
> >>
> >>Any suggestions where to get the missing packages for woody?
> >
> >
> >Try the search page on <http://www.apt-get.org>, I the missing
> >packages from there.
> 
> Thanks, I found libfontconfig1. I still have a problem with
> libfreetype6. I made a mistake to install xfree 4.2 from sarge whose
> libfreetype6 is not compatible with libfreetype6 from woody.

Here is mine (also a backport):

ii  libfreetype6                    2.1.3-10woody1

> I guess I'll have to remove all the xfree 4.2 files which means I'll
> have to reinstall all the apps that depend on X.

I don't think so. Daniels Stones packages are rather clean. They are
now used as a base for the official 4.3.0 packages for sid.

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