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Phill Edwards wrote:
> 
> Thanks Terry. I'm still a bit lost though. With XFree86 there are a
> bundle of packages which need to be downloaded (if the Debian
> installation is anything like installing by ftp'ing from XFree86).
> However, I can't find any Howto's for a Debian installation. It must be
> different to the instructions you get from XFree86 because not all of
> the packages are available in the Debian ftp directory (this is at
> sunsite.anu.edu.au). Could anyone tell me if there is some docco on
> installing Debian X packages, and if not how does anyone manage to get
> it installed?

In theory you just run 'dselect' and select an X server package.
'Dselect` will then tell you which other packages you need (and 
it will download and install them for you :)
"In theory" because I used 'dpkg' (a low-level package management app)
so I can't guarantee it.

Packages you need are: X server for your video card,
	xbase,
	xlib6,
	xfontbase,
whatever else fonts you want,
and I recommend you to install xserver-vga16 because it has a nice
setup utility.
Oh, and you probably want xmanpages.

As of XFree 3.1.2 X didn't want to run without PEX fonts.  I don't
know if it's fixed in 3.2 -- I just installed xfontpex, it's only
7Kb or so.

Also, bottom half of the `dselect` screen contains short descrition
for each package -- read it.

Run `XF86Setup` and you should be all set.

Cheers

Dimitri
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