Re: blackbox

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:54:51PM -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:19:29PM +0200, Niklas Höglund wrote:
> > I'd guess the standard blackbox in Debian is set up to show the menus
> > if you right click, which is kind of hard to do with a stylus. (If
> > you don't use the XRmouse applet.) There may be some config file
> > where you can change that, if I'm right.
>
> No xrmouse on my machine, and apt-get install xrmouse doesn't get it
> either. What package is it in?

Sorry, I meant xmonobut.

> > > Also, xrandr is missing. I've installed xbase-clients and
> > > xbase-clients-ipaq, which should contain it, but it's not there. So
> > > when I try the rotate menu under blackbox-ipaq, it can't work.
> >
> > I have xrandr on my system. It's in xbase-clients version 4.2.1-12.1.
> > Maybe it's not available in the version from stable. I've upgraded my
> > system to Debian unstable.
>
> Hmm, I must be doing something wrong. I've changed my /etc/apt/sources.list
> like this:
>
> deb http://intimate.handhelds.org/debian unstable main
> #deb http://intimate.handhelds.org/debian woody main

I'm not sure there is an intimate unstable. You may want to leave the
intimate woody archive in place.

> deb http://security.debian.org woody/updates main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> But running apt-get install xbase-clients (I tried xbase-clients_4.2.1-12.1
> first, but that didn't work) got xbase-clients-ipaq removed and
> xbase-clients_4.1.0-16woody1_arm.deb installed in it's stead. Which doesn't have
> xrandr.
> Do I need to find a different unstable mirror? Hard to believe there's so
> much inconsistency in packages and installs -- really frustrating!

All mirrors should have the same packages, at least if they're more
than a day old.

Have you run apt-get update?

I've found that many packages in the arm unstable archive are
uninstallable. I guess they don't get built as quickly as on the i386
architecture. Sometimes I have been able to force installs by manually
downloading packages and installing them with dpkg, or by specifying
the version, as in "apt-get install xbase-clients/unstable". IIRC,
this has not been the case for xbase-clients, I think I got it by just
doing "apt-get update; apt-get -u dist-upgrade".

If you don't get apt-get to cooperate, you could use dpkg to install
the package at
ftp://ftp.du.se/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/xbase-clients_4.2.1-12.1_arm.deb

For me, apt-cache search xbase-clients shows the above URL.

-- 
                                                Niklas