X.org on Debian. Does it possible?

Bogdan · 06-02-2004, 04:38 AM

What is distro-frendly way to install X.org on Debian? Does anyone have it packaged?

rnmartinez · 06-02-2004, 10:10 PM

I followed the directions on a site in spanish. I got to the last step but not sure what to do. basically I made my own from the 7 tarballs on the x.org site (took 23 minutes to make!) then I installed it, made sym links, but I need to find a way to get deb to start from x.org instead of xfree86. This site mentioned using equivs-control to build fake packages or something like that but Im not sure since I'm a newbie. That's about all I can contribute.

Ron77 · 06-03-2004, 11:54 AM

I had no problem following the generic instructions. Everything went smoothly.

Strike · 06-03-2004, 03:41 PM

Considering that even in unstable, X is still on 4.3, I doubt you'll find any good X.org packages (which branch off of the prerelease immediately before X 4.4).

Ron77 · 06-03-2004, 05:01 PM

My mistake, I thought we were talking about xfree86.org...