[CLUE-Tech] Debian: gpm not installing by default

Timothy C. Klein teece at silverklein.net
Sat Apr 20 12:11:22 MDT 2002


* David Jackson (david.j.jackson at pickledbeans.com) wrote:
> Greetings --
> 
> Version 2.2r3.
> 
> Is gpm (mouse support) not install my default under Debian?
> Or did I just miss a package install, or do I need to upgrade my distro?

I can't remember if it is there by default.  But if it wasn't, just:

apt-get install gpm

And there you go.

> Related question is using custom install script? Any docs on writing
> such a thing?
>  

What do you mean, exactly?  Like using a different script instead of
gpm.postinst?  Or do you mean the whole install, ala the boot floppies?

Tim
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