[Cuis] Display Driver Missing (not)

[Phil B]

If it were me I'd just reinstall Linux unless you want to go through the
pain of fixing whatever dependencies got broken.  The good news is it
sounds like you've learned early on not to use dpkg directly as it will
trivially and quietly allow you to break your install since it doesn't deal
with dependencies.  synaptic (GUI), aptitude (text ui) and apt-get are all
better package management options unless you know precisely what and why
you are doing something from a package standpoint.

On Dec 12, 2016 6:00 PM, "Dan Norton" <dnorton at mindspring.com> wrote:

I'm trying to move off Doze7 to Debian Linux (jessie). Things were going
great with Cuis until this noob used dpkg to remove some "unneeded" lib*
files. In one command entry 100 or so were removed and after that:

d at debian:~/cuis$ cogspur/cogspurlinux/squeak Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/an.image
produced:

could not find display driver vm-display-X11; either:
  - check that /home/d/cuis/cogspur/cogspurlinux/lib/squeak/5.0-3397//vm-display-X11.so
exists, or
  - use the '-plugins <path>' option to tell me where it is, or
  - remove DISPLAY from your environment.
Aborted

This did not occur prior to removal with dpkg and the file "vm-display-X11"
is exactly where it's always been, so I think Spur needed one or more of
those lib* files I deleted. BTW, GNOME, email, browser, gedit seem
unaffected.

Any help in identifying what Spur needs to find that driver would be much
appreciated.

 - Dan

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