Mr. Old Potatoe Head, Sam, Calm down, we'll talk you off that ledge! Don't jump!. You can get info on a pkg not installed with: apt-cache show pkg-name You can find a master cross reference list of all files and what package they come from in: cdrom or debian ftp site/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz I find this list to be very helpful, so you can search for /startx and find that startx is part of x11/xbase-clients. Do you have xbase-clients installed?(dpkg -l | grep xbase-client). What files are in afterstep?(dpkg -L afterstep). Hope that helps, Karl. On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:16:04PM -0500, Sam MacDonald wrote: > I'm not going after anyone with this eMail it's just general angst! > > *< Ranting>* > This is why I didn't want to use the "apt-get install afterstep" without > knowing what is REALLY needed. For some reason it does not install what > is needed to run X windows, without knowing WTF is going on internally > it will never work. > Obviously some configuration or inside know edge is needed before > installing and running X windows and any window manager. Either a > dependency for running X windows is not included with "afterstep" or it > is assumed to be installed. > ~~~ > # afterstep > AfterStep: can't open display > > # afterstep -d 0 > AfterStep: can't open display > > # startx > bash: startx: command not found > > # X > bash: X: command not found > ~~~ > I know this is not a M$ installer but for Linux (any distribution) to > even get close to the desktop it will need to be able to install and run > _anything_ without fault. > > # apt-get remove afterstep > It still leaves directories and files for me to manually remove, the > unistall process needs to be complete. Freaking delete the files then > the directory. I don't care who wrote apt-get they need to do the job > right. > *</Ranting>* > > Sam. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list