Re: xscreensaver

[Travis Saling <trav u washington edu>]

> I just did a Ximian Redcarpet update.  It informed me that I needed to
> remove xscreensaver-gl by hand before it could do whatever updates it
> had planned.  I did this, and also removed the standard Ximian
> screensaver package, thinking it couldn't hurt to just reinstall the
> screen savers from scratch. Now xscreensaver is not even appearing in my
> list of packages to install when using Redcarpet.
>
> How do I get the Ximian version of the xscreensavers back via Redcarpet?
> I can no longer find a place on their website to download individual
> packages.


If you just let it update every package, that last group included an 
update to X-Screensaver.  I think they've just wrapped it all up into 
one single package again, which probably makes more sense - but it was 
rather confusing to see that "must remove xscreensaver-gl" note.  But if 
it's not installed on your computer,

If for some reason it isn't installed any more, the first place to look 
is your /var/cache/redcarpet/packages directory.  The RPMs are usually 
kept in there after they are installed.  If it's not there, go to 
ftp.ximian.com and find the directory that has the individual RPMs (I 
don't remember the path off-hand).


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