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Author Topic: Adding Icewm  (Read 3331 times)

Lyn

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Adding Icewm
« on: April 23, 2009, 11:29:12 pm »
As regular readers will know I am fond of icewm.  However when I try to install the meta package icewmvmods on VL6 Deluxe I get the following error:

xterm: Depends: libxcb >= 1.1-i586-1vl60

If I ignore it the packages install but when I try to launch via the GDM screen it bombs out and I am returned to the GDM log on screen

Any clues?
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nightflier

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Re: Adding Icewm
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2009, 04:24:19 am »
The package was only tested on VL Standard  :(

I have seen that unsatisfied dependency with other packages, though. Looks like Std has xterm-232-i486-1 installed. I see xterm-241-i486-1slack12.1 in repo, and it lists libxcb >= 1.1-i586-1vl60 as a dep, whereas only 1.0-i486-2 is available.

If you boot to TUI, use vxwmset to choose icewm, will startx bring it up then?
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rbistolfi

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Re: Adding Icewm
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2009, 10:55:16 am »
I will check the dependencies of xterm-241-i486-1slack12.1 as soon as I get home.
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Lyn

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Re: Adding Icewm
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2009, 12:21:35 pm »
No it doesn't unfortunately... it brings up Xfce!
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