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#1 2007-09-29 02:11:45

thayer
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Has anyone successfully removed [testing]'s libx11 without problems?

I installed libx11 from the [testing] repo a couple weeks ago while giving Compiz Fusion a go... I have since gone back to Openbox, but I can't seem to revert libx11 to the stable version without breaking all kinds of stuff in X.  Icons are all broken, GNOME menus are gone, etc...

Is there some way to revert to libx11 1.1.3-1?


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#2 2007-09-29 07:21:45

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Re: Has anyone successfully removed [testing]'s libx11 without problems?

Is libx11 really the only package you got from testing?
Try disabling the testing repo, then run pacman -Syu. It should show you all packages you got from testing.


pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

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#3 2007-09-29 14:28:41

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Re: Has anyone successfully removed [testing]'s libx11 without problems?

libx11 is all I that I grabbed from testing.  In the earlier stages of nesl247's CF binaries, all that was required was libx11 from testing because it was compiled with such and such when the stable version wasn't.  I enabled testing, synced the package cache, explicitly installed libx11 and then immediately disabled testing.  Since then however, I can't revert back to the stable version without it screwing up stuff in X.

Pacman -Syu:

warning: libx11: local (1.1.3-4) is newer than extra (1.1.3-1)

I've been thinking of doing a fresh install (for various reasons), but with the repo shuffles last weekend I'd rather wait for the next ISO set.


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#4 2007-09-29 22:11:16

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Re: Has anyone successfully removed [testing]'s libx11 without problems?

thayer.w wrote:

libx11 is all I that I grabbed from testing.  In the earlier stages of nesl247's CF binaries, all that was required was libx11 from testing because it was compiled with such and such when the stable version wasn't.  I enabled testing, synced the package cache, explicitly installed libx11 and then immediately disabled testing.  Since then however, I can't revert back to the stable version without it screwing up stuff in X.

Pacman -Syu:

warning: libx11: local (1.1.3-4) is newer than extra (1.1.3-1)

I've been thinking of doing a fresh install (for various reasons), but with the repo shuffles last weekend I'd rather wait for the next ISO set.

tpowa posted a test-iso on the arch-dev-public. Should be fairly stable, maybe give that a shot and let us know.

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#5 2007-09-29 22:33:38

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Re: Has anyone successfully removed [testing]'s libx11 without problems?

thayer.w, you also need to install xproto from extra (as xorg.sh was moved to libx11 in testing, and that is what is causing your issue with missing menus and such)

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#6 2007-09-30 03:46:02

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Re: Has anyone successfully removed [testing]'s libx11 without problems?

Thanks for the tips, nesl, unfortunately xproto is already installed (from extra)... It's time for some housekeeping anyway, so I'll grab tpowa's test iso and have a go.


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#7 2007-09-30 04:14:32

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Re: Has anyone successfully removed [testing]'s libx11 without problems?

thayer.w, after downgrading libx11 you need to reinstall xproto to get it, because libx11 would have overwritten it.

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#8 2007-09-30 16:43:18

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Re: Has anyone successfully removed [testing]'s libx11 without problems?

I did a fresh install last night with tobias' FTP ISO... which worked great!  I had been planning a reinstall anyway and was just waiting for an updated ISO.

Thanks for the info anyway, nes' and perhaps it'll help others who have done the same thing.


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