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How to install X11 for debian

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From: Phill Edwards
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00
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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.

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.

So how does it work on Debian? Do we have to install the xfree86 stuff
AND then install xbase etc, or is it one or the other. If anyone has
the answer or can point me to some debian docco on this then that
would be great. I've checked out the Debian Documentation Project and
there's no mention of X11 install there.

Thanks,
-- Phill --
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From: pedwards@mpx.com.au (Phill Edwards)
Subject: How to install X11 for debian
Date: 1998/12/01
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