Fedora: how to go from XFree86 to xorg?
Tim Wunder
tim
Mon May 17 12:02:20 PDT 2004
On Saturday 15 May 2004 11:44 am, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> Since i'm terminally impatient I installed Fedora Core 2-test-1 last
> night (yes i know test 3 exists, and the final version is due out next
> week).
>
> Test 1 came with XFree86, but it looks like the fedora people switched
> over to the X.org stuff sometime afterwards. Is there a safe way to
> upgrade (rpm -Uvh) or am i basically screwed?
You might be able to update via yum, or apt, if you set up the right
repository.
Check http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/ for a potential repository (that's
an upgrade from RC1 to FC2 test 1 from which you might extrapolate an answer.
Now how "safe" that might be, who knows?
HTH,
Tim
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