Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:50:07 -0500 (EST) From: Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No luck installing X-distribution with Sysinstall (3.3-Release) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.991109084723.17915B-100000@spectre> In-Reply-To: <rd6n1sowozf.fsf@world.std.com>
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Thanks - I am certain that there was no /usr/X11R6 directory. I did manage to get X installed by extracting the tarfiles directly, but the point is that the install utility included in 3.3-Release seems to have a bug in it (at least for me). - M - On 8 Nov 1999, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org> writes: > > > I am giving up on the sysinstall utility for installing X -it obviously > > isn't going to work for me, so it looks like I'm stuck installing it from > > the ports collection - but can anyone offer any ideas as to why this is > > happening? Am I the only one to have this problem? > > Are you sure it didn't get installed? Is there really no /usr/X11R6 > directory? > > Assuming that there isn't, you should be able to unpack the tar files > directly from the CDROM into /usr/X11R6. Xbin.tgz, Xlib.tgz, and > Xset.tgz are the minimum, but doc, man, cfg, prog, html, and maybe a > few others might be useful as well (in roughly decreasing order of my > own opinion of their usefulness). And you'll need the right server; > those are in a subdirectory of wherever you found the other files. > > Then, of course, you still need to configure the whole thing. But > you'd need to do that after installing from sysinstall, also. > > Be well. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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