Re: XFree 4.0.1
Of course since the .debs are apt-getable now would someone please explain to me the advantage of doing it by hand?
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 03 Nov 2000 10:16:59 -0800
>Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
>
>> if you installed into /usr/local like your supposed to your fine, if
>> you just overwrote random stuff in /usr your hosed.
>
>X wants to go in /usr/X11R6, /etc/X11, and so on. What you want to
>do is make a backup of all the relevant dirs before proceeding. On my
>system, they are
>
>/etc/X11
>/usr/X11R6
>/var/catman/X11R6
>/usr/include/X11
>/usr/lib/X11
>/usr/share/lib/X11
>
>Even if you didn't make a backup, I doubt that you've ruined your life
>by installing the tarball. Some things may be broken in 4.0.1, but
>that's about it. In the worst case you can always nuke the X
>directories and reinstall the debs.
>
>Right now I have both X3.3.6 and X4.0.1 installed, the former via debs
>and the latter via tarball. I switch between the two by symlinking to
>the appropriate directories, as in
>
>ln -s /etc/X11-3.3.6 /etc/X11
>
>I can't recommend this approach without reservations,
>because I've only been using it for a few days and it may have broken
>things (though I can't see why it would off-hand).
>
>Don't let debian run your life!
>-chris
>
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