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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 19:14:31 -0400
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From: Jason Cromer <jacromer@vt.edu>
Subject: Installing X 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 2.2.2
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  Can someone tell me what's going on here?  I'm a new (about a month)
FreeBSD user and I've been trying since then to install X.  My machine is a
P-133,
32mb ram, 1gb allocated for FreeBSD, and a 2mb SVGA card.  I'm trying
to install X 3.3.1 on FreeBSD 2.2.2.

  # su
  # umask 022

  <no problems here yet>

  # cd /usr
  #for i in /msdos/freebsd/xfree86/x*.tgz; do tar -x -z --unlink -f
$i; done

  <seems like all the files are being untarred  Where exactly are they
    being untarred to?>

  #cd /usr/X11R6/bin; rm X; ln -s XF86_SVGA X

  <There was no /usr/X11R6 directory even created so I manually created it>

  # echo 'set path = ($path /usr/X11R6/bin)' >>/etc/csh.login
  # echo 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin' >>/etc/profile

  <no problems doing this>

  # ldconfig /usr/lib  /usr/local/lib  /usr/X11R6/lib

  <Error:  /usr/local/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib do not exist at all.
    I had to create these two directories, but someone told me
    that there's something wrong if I had to create them.  He
    said that it was automatic that these two directories should
    have been made. I'm positive that I downloaded every
    file from www.XFree86.Org in their /binaries directory.  Am I
    forgetting something?>

  I really appreciate any advice or help with this in pointing me in
the right direction to get X up and running.  Thank you :)

  Jason