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Thanks Terry. I believe it was xbase_3.3.2.3-2. I think it may well have
been a bug. To work around it I manually created the doc/X11 directories and
tried installing the xbase package again, which all seemed to work.
Regards,
-- Phill --

Terry Dawson wrote in message <1vr547.d93.ln@tao.linux.org.au>...
>In article <3663ca48.1214794@news.ozemail.com.au>,
> pedwards@mpx.com.au (Phill Edwards) writes:
>> I'm very confused as to how to install X11 for debian. The HOWTO
>> document talks about getting a certain set of files from xfree86.
>> There is no debian specific docco on how to do it that I can find. I
>> had assumed that if I installed the xbase, xserver and xlib6g packages
>> plus everythingt they depended upon that I would not need to get all
>> the stuff from xfree86 because they would be in the debian packages.
>
>That is correct. Everything you need is packaged.
>
>> I installed xlib6g 3.3.2 and all the other dependent packages but when
>> I came to install xbase I got the following error :
>>
>> ln: cannot symbolic link '../../../doc/X11' to
>> '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc': no such file or directory.
>
>That means that the installation script for xbase thinks that the
>/usr/doc/X11 directory does not exist. The /usr/doc/X11 directory is
>created by the xbase package. That looks like a bug in the xbase package
>to me. What version of xbase are you trying to install?
>
>Usually X11 install on Debian is pretty much a no-brainer. You've struck
>some sort of bug there.
>
>Terry
>