Thanks for that. These two commands give the following:

[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% fink list -i xfree86
Reading package info...
Information about 954 packages read in 17 seconds.

(i) xfree86-base 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
(i) xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% fink list xfree86
Reading package info...
Information about 954 packages read in 14 seconds.

system-xfree86 4.2-5 Placeholder package for manually installe...
(i) xfree86-base 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
xfree86-base-sh 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
(i) xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-3 XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and...
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods%

I seem to have the key xfree86 packages installed but they do not work and as you see below, I don't have the 'X' in my path (/usr/X11R6/bin/X). Does this mean that the install is faulty? Do I need to install any of the others?

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 09:35 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

fink list -i xfree86

will show all of your installed xfree86 packages.

fink list xfree86

will show all of the xfree86 packages.

--
Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Levitated Dipole Experiment
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Cambridge, MA  02139-4213

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Julian F.Woods wrote:

I thought I installed both the base and 'rootless' but maybe not. I
don't recall the word 'threaded'. How do I check which version I have
installed?

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 02:32 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:

On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Julian F.Woods wrote:

Many thanks. I tried the various options you suggested and this gave
me the following:

[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% printenv PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/ usr/
X11R6/bin
[Julian-Woodss-Computer:~] jfwoods% startx -- -rootless

xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server
"/usr/X11R6/bin/X" in PATH
When you say you installed xfree86 from dselect, which package exactly
did you install? If it was one of Fink's xfree86-* packages, be
warned that to run local X programs, you need *both* the base and
rootless packages. IE, if you were installing the threaded X package,
you would install xfree86-rootless-threaded (along with
xfree86-base-threaded, and their shared libs), otherwise you would
install xfree86-rootless (along with xfree86-base).

If you *just* installed xfree86-base or xfree86-base-threaded, that
would be your problem.



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