Re: 256-color xterm

From: Colin Watson (cjwatson_at_debian.org)
Date: 01/30/04

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    On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
    > thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for
    > xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files
    > named xfree86-4.2.1*. The implication is that one needs to build the
    > whole of xfree86 in order to make a debian package; and following the
    > instructions from the debian reference manual, namely:
    >
    > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc
    >
    > from within the directory
    > xfree86-4.2.1
    >
    > results in an attempt to build xfree86 (which fails, I suppose
    > because not all the sources are really present).

    Have you installed all its build-dependencies, listed in the .dsc file
    (or 'apt-get build-dep xfree86')? 

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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