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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