Re: [SLUG] Downloaded XFree4.3 via apt -get .... now what?

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Mick Boda wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Big thanks to both Mary and Jamie for all their help so far.  Thanks to 
>the combined efforts of these two "wells of patience" I managed to 
>download the XFree release by Mr Stone.
>
>I checked and found an initimidating list of .deb files in 
>/var/cache/apt/archives
>
>Now all I need to know is "where do I go from here?"  How do I install 
>Xfree 4.3?
>
>I actually thought apt-get update would automtically install the 
>packages, if it was supposed to, it hasn't.

Try typing

dpkg -l xserver-xfree86

and let us know what it says.

Also, the top of the file /var/log/Xfree86.0.log will tell you which version
of XFree86 is getting run.

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