Debian ? re: woody and task-x-window-system

[Droo]

I've successfully upgraded X-windows from potato to woody before, but I'm rebuilding a machine and I forgot how I did it.

I did a base install of potato (no X) and have dist-upgraded to woody so now my sources point to woody. However, now I've noticed that the task-x-window-system package is in potato and sid, but not in woody.

I think something I installed earlier had added some X 3.3.6 packages b/c apt-get finds task-x-window-system but raises dependency hell if I try to install it.

I think I may have forgotten the -u flag when upgrading to woody so I wonder if thats causing this. So what's the easiest way to get X 4.03 going on woody?

[Strike]

dpkg -l | grep 3.3.6

dpkg --purge anything having to do with X

Then, make sure your woody sources.list is good, apt-get update, and then apt-get install task-x-window-system and you should be okay.

[Tfortysix]

I had to ln-s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X or it gave me some message about /etc/X11/X being worthless.