Install/Update w/o X?

From: Pat Wilson <paw_at_northstar.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 17:09:33 +22306256

Dear Digital:

  Gosh, it's so very nice of you to be watching out for me. But, gee, I
don't even have a graphics _card_ on my AlphaStation 200 that I want to
upgrade to 3.2G from 3.2A - whatever would I do with ALL OF THOSE STUPID X
FILES? And since I didn't need them, I've long since reclaimed that space
in /usr, and so THE BASIC UPGRADE FAILS! Whatever were you thinking when you
decreed that I _must_ want happy GUIs? I don't, in fact.

More to the point, how can I upgrade just the files I have a hope of using
without having to REFORMAT MY ENTIRE SYSTEM?

Frothing only slightly,

Pat Wilson
paw_at_dartmouth.edu

PS And who's the bright light who decided that /usr/var (huh?) was a
winner?
Received on Thu Mar 20 1997 - 23:31:29 NZST

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