Message-ID: <1B15C62CF9A0D311BD210008C7CF02E5360537@tayexc04.tay.dec.com> From: "Champigny, Michael" <Michael.Champigny@compaq.com> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:26:12 -0400 Subject: Minimum X install for Multia?
Hello,
I'm in the process of replacing Red Hat with SuSE on all my
Alpha boxes. I'm gotten 6.4 to install on the Multia. I had to
use the "Minimum configuration" to squeeze the install onto the
small 500M internal disk. I still have 100M left over and I'd
now like to put a mimimal X setup on there.
I've installed sax, the TGA server, xf86, and the tcl/tk packages.
When I fired up sax, I didn't get the splash screen (I'm probably
missing a few packages) and the interface hung up with a wait
cursor. :-(
My question is, how do I determine the dependencies of a package
when installing with YaST? I was able to install Sax despite not having
the tcl packages, and Yast didn't complain! Red Hat RPM would fail
on missing dependencies so that the user could have the proper
prerequisites. Why does SuSE's installer not do this?
A more important question, what are the absolute minimum packages
I need to install to have basic X support? I'm talking just twm and
the basic libs. I don't have a description of what packages would
be needed.
To SuSE...hint hint! Please add a "Minimum X install" option to
the configuration screen so that the storage-challenged Multia users
can get X going.
If anyone has a workaround though for the Sax problem I'd love to hear
it. I've tried xf86setup and that didn't seem to work correctly either.
Thanks!
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