Re: New Debian installation

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <zanghar freenet de>]

Am Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:53:10 -0500
schrieb 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 ?

Fine. But I thought Rodrigo has backported the `fix' from 1.3.5.3 to
1.3.5.2 ... (`fix' because that was an ugly hack, the real fix was done
for 1.5.0.)

> 
> Thanks for all your help Chris
> 

No problem,
Chris