Re: New Debian installation

[Frank McCormick <beacon videotron ca>]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:18:57 +0100
Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de> wrote:

> > 
> > >Besides, which versions of librep/rep-gtk/sawfish are
> > > you using?
> > 
> >   rep-gtk 0.90.0-2
> >   sawfish 1.3.5.2-1
> 
> (...) I'm not sure now (it's already 12 months ago) if
> librep/rep-gtk 0.90x + sawfish 1.3x will work. I can't remember for
> sure, but one of both is blocking sawifsh 1.3.5x, either way there
> has also been a hotfix release, 1.3.5.3, because of an major bug
> which prevented startup on several systems. Well you may cherrypick
> sawfish 1.5.3 from unstable.

  That's the solution I picked -  downloaded and installed everything from
Sid and that fixed the problem. Dunno why those files are even
in the testing repository as I Googled a least a couple of complaints
about non-working installations. I wonder how many people just gave up
when it didn't work ?


Thanks for all your help Chris




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Frank<beacon videotron ca>