[plug] Problem compiling linphone (command line only)

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Tue Nov 11 17:58:22 WST 2003


Thanks Cameron,

It did, however say:

adding system startup for /etc/init.d/xfree86-common

I'm not sure exactly what that is going to do or if it should be there.

I made a directory call back under /etc/init.d moved that file to there.

Is this okay?

regards,

Chris

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:34, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:29:00PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> | I want to keep this machine as CLI only but I have plenty of HD space.
> | It doesn't say it's going to install x-window-system but I want to check
> | that it's not going to have undesired effects anyway.
> 
> The one you probably don't want it to install is xserver-xfree86, which
> is a real live X server that will want to talk to graphics hardware.
> (Well, it won't unless you actually try running it, but just installing
> it will still ask lots of irritating questions.)  Since that's only on
> the list as a "suggested" package you should be fine.
> 
> And since you'll have a package with GNOME support you'll be able to use
> it graphically over ssh X forwarding if you ever want to.  (Actually
> you'd have to install xbase-clients for that too, but it's still easier
> than recompiling ;-)
> 
> Cameron.
> 
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