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petteri · #1 Post by **petteri** » 2004-09-18 10:29

I'm running unstable and saw those nice pictures of X.orgs X11 server running. I'd like to try it, but don't want to break my system. Any news when X.org is coming to unstable so that I can just apt-get install it

or are there any other easy ways of getting it (like some nice tutorial for compiling it from source)?

Gusar · #2 Post by **Gusar** » 2004-09-18 12:11

There is a nice tutorial here

petteri · #3 Post by **petteri** » 2004-09-18 13:22

Gusar wrote:There is a nice tutorial here

Thanks. That is just what I was looking for.

startx · #4 Post by **startx** » 2004-09-18 19:26

theres no danger in breaking the system. i had both xservers (x.org and xfree86 ) installed. if you install the x.org server from cvs via the script from the website into /opt you are able to run it just like any other program.

happy hacking ...

uteck · #5 Post by **uteck** » 2004-12-09 00:10

Ubuntu has X.org in there development branch for their next release called Hoary. Apt info is at; http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/docu ... term=hoary
and here is a copy for people to lazy to click the link.

"So, basically, I did this:

1. Edit sources.list, change
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
to
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe
2. Run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install xserver-xorg and remove all xfree68-packages - something needed to be done manually here, I think it was removing xfree86-common.
4. Downgrade about 10-20 packages from Debian sid to their Ubuntu counterparts (minor changes) with Synaptic."

I did something similer, but I just added the Ubuntu repository, but I was unable to get the apt pinning right so I commented it out after installing x.org. I did not make any changes to my XFree86-4 file and everything is running fine.

Jeroen · #6 Post by **Jeroen** » 2004-12-09 11:30

Do note that you then change your system from Debian to Ubuntu -- you're no longer running Debian. Ubuntu and Debian have several differences, one is that Ubuntu supports much less packages. 'universe' still has kind of all packages that sid has, but they do not get updated, not even when there are security issues. Only ubuntu's core, their supported packages, get real support and attention (being gnome and a whole bunch of applications on it, and a number of server applications (apache, ...), python development tools.

x.org will be added to Debian in due time, but after Sarge's release.

Guest · #7 Post by **Guest** » 2004-12-10 10:31

The xfree version that is in debian is way more stable that xorg right now.

chimaera · #8 Post by **chimaera** » 2004-12-17 08:51

that'S why you don't run a dist-upgarde but only upgrade the x-packages. do a little script-magic (e.g. grep for the version of xorg in ubuntu) or just use synaptic. i _only_ use the ubuntu xorg packages, the rest is still debian/sid. btw, it's running rock-stable here..

peschmae · #9 Post by **peschmae** » 2004-12-17 23:07

Anonymous wrote:The xfree version that is in debian is way more stable that xorg right now.

Im not so sure about that

Peschmä

veezis · #10 Post by **veezis** » 2004-12-25 01:01

btw it seems that these packages works fine. i think most of you may allready know this respository, but here it is:

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deb http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main
deb-src http://debian.linux-systeme.com unstable main

tripmix · #11 Post by **tripmix** » 2005-01-15 17:38

Any mirrors to debian.linux-system?? cuz it's gone now.

veezis · #12 Post by **veezis** » 2005-01-15 22:58

No, i think there isn't. read here. Anyways you can try ubuntu's X.Org packages, they are enaugh stable too

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deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hoary main restricted universe multiverse

and for xcompmgr

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deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~daniels/ xcompmgr/

and that's it