From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 11:20:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F36137B406 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 144CC43E6A for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E5D7E529F; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D549C529C; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:19:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:19:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: MET Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 Upgrade || XFree86 version In-Reply-To: <002d01c24482$025928b0$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> Message-ID: <20020815111339.M15133-100000@q.closedsrc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 2002-08-15, MET scribbled: # Ok well the /usr/X11R6/bin/X -version worked -- accordingly I'm running # XFree86 version 3.3.6. So how would I go about upgrading to the latest # version? There are two ways that you can install the latest version of XFree86 on your machine... 1. Ports You can install XFree86-4.2.0 from the ports collection under /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4. 2. Binaries from XFree86.org You can download the FreeBSD 4.x binaries from XFree86.org at: ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/binaries/FreeBSD-4.x/ Just download all of the files into a directory and run the following command within that directory as root: # sh Xinstall.sh It will walk you through the installation process, asking some questions about which packages you want or not. If you have enough drive space, choosing the defaults should be fine. If you are a bit tight on space, then tell it not to install the Docs, some of the non-English fonts, and possibly the Virtual Framebuffer stuff. The ports method is a bit easier, though it will take a while to download and compile (not as bad as say Mozilla or KDE3). -- Linh Pham lplist@closedsrc.org Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org closedsrc.org Every solution breeds new problems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message