[Cuis] Display Driver Missing (not)

[Dan Norton]

Thanks Phil, I probably will take your suggestion after capturing what's 
been building up in /home. This seems to be a good opportunity to put 
/home in a separate partition with the next install, unless someone 
talks me out of it :-).

On 12/12/2016 06:38 PM, Phil B wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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