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<h1><a href="../index.html">XSF</a> / Backports for squeeze</h1>
<span id="author">Cyril Brulebois</span><br />
<span id="email"><tt><<a href="mailto:kibi@debian.org">kibi@debian.org</a>></tt></span><br />
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<h2 id="_bird_s_eye_view">Bird’s-eye view</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>If one forgets about libraries and clients, a whole X stack boils down
to: the server itself, input and video drivers, libdrm, and mesa.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To keep things simple, the idea is to backport all of those to
<tt>squeeze</tt> through <tt>squeeze-backports</tt>, along with some of the
additional packages which might be involved (like <tt>libxfont</tt> or
<tt>x11proto-fixes-dev</tt>).</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The backports were prepared so that it’s possible to upgrade the
<tt>input-all</tt> and <tt>video-all</tt> meta packages on <tt>amd64</tt> and <tt>i386</tt>. If
specific drivers (maintained by the X Strike Force) are wanted,
requesting them on the <tt>debian-backports@</tt> / <tt>debian-x@</tt> mailing lists
should do the trick. For other drivers, please contact the relevant
package maintainers.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_instructions">Instructions</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The usual <a href="http://backports-master.debian.org/">backports instructions</a>
apply. But let’s gather everything in a single place.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Add that to your <tt>sources.list</tt>:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main</tt></pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Update your cache:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>apt-get update</tt></pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>If you’re interested in just upgrading the usual <tt>mesa</tt> packages:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>apt-get install -t squeeze-backports libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx</tt></pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>If you want the whole stack, we should distinguish between two
cases.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>In the usual case, both the <tt>xserver-xorg-input-all</tt> and
<tt>xserver-xorg-video-all</tt> meta packages were installed, and pulled a
lot of packages, which should work for most users. In that case, due
to a bug in <tt>apt</tt>, one has to remove the <tt>wacom</tt> input package before
proceeding to the upgrade (the <tt>xserver-xorg-input-all</tt> package might
be scheduled for removal as a consequence, but that doesn’t
hurt). Then specifying a few packages to upgrade should pull
everything from <tt>squeeze-backports</tt>.</p></div>
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<pre><tt>apt-get purge xserver-xorg-input-wacom
apt-get install -t squeeze-backports xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-video-all</tt></pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>In case only the needed packages were installed, like the <tt>synaptics</tt>
input driver and the <tt>intel</tt> video driver, the following should be
sufficient:</p></div>
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<pre><tt>apt-get install -t squeeze-backports xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-intel</tt></pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>It is probably a very good idea to install the Linux kernel from
<tt>squeeze-backports</tt> as well. It is even required for the <tt>nouveau</tt>
video driver.</p></div>
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Last updated 2012-01-20 14:56:19 UTC
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