From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 11:54:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15D6137B41B for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:54:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 13543 invoked by uid 0); 12 Mar 2002 19:54:03 -0000 Received: from tk212017108240.univie.teleweb.at (HELO Deadcell.ant) (212.17.108.240) by mail.gmx.net (mp003-rz3) with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 19:54:03 -0000 Received: (from ant@localhost) by Deadcell.ant (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2CJs2A93632; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:54:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ant) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:54:01 +0100 From: Andreas Ntaflos To: Jacques Beigbeder Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any philosophy to install XFree86? Message-ID: <20020312205401.B88563@Deadcell.ant> Mail-Followup-To: Jacques Beigbeder , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020312195010.A11599@trefle.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020312195010.A11599@trefle.ens.fr>; from Jacques.Beigbeder@ens.fr on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:50:10PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:50:10PM +0100, Jacques Beigbeder wrote: > May be it's a FAQ... > > Is there any philosophy to install X11R6 on a FreeBSD 4.5? > There are 3 sources: > . 4.5-RELEASE/XF86336, old Xfree86 3.3.6; > . XFree86*4.1.0*.tgz ( from packages-4.5-release/x11 ); > . the distribution from ftp.xfree86.org (now 4.1.2). > > Is there any preferred order and choice to get a good installation, > relatively to all packages and dependencies? > I found very painless to install XFree86 from the ports (x11/XFree86-4). With portupgrade it is even easier. Just answer the few questions the installation routine asks (install xdm - yes,no , install fonts - yes,no etc etc) and you don't have to worry about anything. HTH regards -- Andreas "ant" Ntaflos ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net Vienna, AUSTRIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message