[nflug] more fun with apt

[Stephen Burke]

matt donovan wrote:
> To find your X version you would do X --version in a console or X 
> -version might be the last one. and usually you would get e17 from cvs 
> not sure if freedesktop.org <http://freedesktop.org> releases tarballs 
> or not of the cvs.

Thanks for the tip. Now I can see that it (elive 0.4.2) is using X 
version 6.9.0. I always though it was two hyphens for a whole word and 
one for a letter (--version, or -v ), but there it's "-version" for some 
reason.

I checked it on the *new* install of elive (replacing the one I trashed, 
now with a separate /home partition for when I fry it again ;-)), but 
now things have gotten even stranger. For some reason, if I try to 
install ANYTHING on this new system with either synaptic or apt, it 
wants to remove xserver-common, linux-image (running kernel), and 
various other needed programs. I don't recall having any such problems 
the first time I installed it, so I'm not sure what's going on here. 
I've already tried to just go ahead and let those things get removed 
(except the kernel) and REtrashed it once, so now I'm just trying to 
work with what's there until I figure it all out.

Very strange. Also annoying since I can't install all the other goodies 
I'd like to have on there. Does anyone have an idea about what's going 
on there or if there's some sort of workaround?

I was all ready to follow John's advice and throw mepis on there, but 
Qtparted in the mepis installer didn't want to let me create a new /home 
partition and elive's gparted let me make one no problem, so I thought 
I'd screw around with elive some more.

Not being a programmer, I'm even less adept at cvs than apt. I tried 
getting e17 from cvs once and it just dumped a 500mb or so folder into 
my /home full of stuff I couldn't comprehend. I also tried putting e17 
on this machine (ubuntu edgy) from the freedesktop site sources, but it 
doesn't want to start even though it installed without problems, so I'm 
still in e16 here.

Fun for days.

Thanks,
S.
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