Hoary - X-Window System Upgrade Offered by Synaptic

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Wed May 25 03:59:47 UTC 2005


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Daniel Stone wrote:
| On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:25:21PM -0700, Ed Fletcher wrote:
|
|>Third issue.  Maybe related to the second one with the Debian menu.
|>
|>I upgraded from Warty to Hoary, and Synaptic is now offering to upgrade
|>my X-Window System from 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu25.2 to 6.8.2-10 which seems
|>like quite an upgrade.  Especially since the download will only be 166Kb.
|>
|>Is this normal?  If not, why am I even seeing this?
|
|
| When upgrading to Hoary, sure it's normal.  There will be other packages
| involved (about eighty); x-window-system is only a tiny little package
| that ensures you have lots and lots of other packages installed that,
| together, comprise a base X install.
|

Ahh, I'd thought that everything had already been upgraded.

All done now.

Thanks,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism
or the holy name of liberty or democracy?  -  Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

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