[ale] no X windows because of 2.2->2.4 upgrade............

[stephen]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:07:08PM -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Greetings !
> 
> Under Debian-2.2.19pre17, to upgrade my system, I..............
> 
> 	apt-get install dist-upgrade
> 
> so now I have no X window system, by which I mean [among other things]
> there is not even a 
> startx script extant. I've not put all this together but reading man X I
> see there are quite a few pieces. 
> 
> Please advise about the least painful way of restoring this
> functionality, but please not "get a CD and start over", because part of
> this exercise is to learn how to manually construct an upgrade. 

I'm not a 100% sure on this, but you might want to try installing
the xserver-vga16 and xf86setup packages.  On x86, this should at
least provide you the tools to configure X.

stephen

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