On Friday, June 27, 2003 9:22 am, J. Joe Wang wrote: > Any suggestions for the upgrade to Xfree86 4.3.0? Can I upgrade the > XFree86 without doing any damage to the system? Is it difficult? Sorry > for so many questions, I have no experience on it at all.
Oops, I forgot that this is what you were really asking about. Installing XFree86 is getting to be almost... easy. If the team got rid of that silly recursive make crap I might actually like doing it. :^) First you should consider getting a ready-to-go binary from your distributor. If an up-to-date one isn't available or is modified to its detriment, then compile X for yourself. Despite not being officially for 4.3.0, this guide gives fairly good coverage: http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/old/XFree86_4.2.99.4.txt It works for me, at least. Of course, feel free to use your distributor's prepackaged versions of the stuff it depends on, like libpng. Unfortunately this guide is marked "old" and is not being maintained, so check for newer versions of stuff it refers to. If you have an already-working copy of XFree86, keep it around in case something goes wrong. -- Andy Goth | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://ioioio.net/ End communication. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
