On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 14:48, John Hearn wrote: > Yesterday, when I forcefully removed apple's X11 installation, > installed 4.4, and then re-installed apple's
Never, never do this. Installing Apple's X11 over a Fink-installed XFree86 can lead to mixed up libraries and other horrors. > --bad things happened. > the system was arunning a bit slow after that, so rebooted, and from > then on I would get the spinning rainbow pizza of death within 5 > minutes of startup. techtool, norton, and diskutility were all > useless in fixing the situation. I backedup and did a clean install > and have everything in pristine working order again. Ive read the > documentation much more closely than before, and know more than I did, > but I dont want to make the same mistake again. > > I am again faced with this message: > > WARNING: if you compile X11 applications against this XFree86 release, > you will *not* be able to run them if you decide to revert to Apple's > X11 provided with Panther. > This one is normal. Like it says, there are some binary compatibility issues with apps compiled vs. later versions of X11. > You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and/or /etc/X11. > This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to > install xfree86 again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you want > to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp. > system-xtools instead to make this known to Fink's package system. > > > I get that despite running the following from root: > > >fink install xfree86-4.4.0-12 xfree86-shlibs-4.4.0-12 > > What special actions do I need to take at this piont in order to keep > everyone happy? > XFree86 won't install over an existing X11 (a courtesy not returned by Apple's installer). You have to remove your old X11 manually. Run sudo -rm -rf /etc/X11 /usr/X11R6 to flush out your old X11 tree. > What I ultimately seek to do is have X11.app run in rootless mode with > quartz-wm so I can be productive, and have xDarwin run full screen > with KDE to play with. Presumably on top of Xfree86 4.4. > Install applex11tools--that should take care of it. > But with regards to the warning above...what packages am I going to > have to recompile in order for them to work with the new X11 > installation? I havent built KDE yet, but I have built Emacs21, > Texmacs, etc. > Nothing--XFree86-4.4 is _backward_ compatible with applications compiled against Apple's X11. It's going the other way that causes problems. > Fairly explicit instructions on what to do at this stage, and pointers > on how to make a suitable .xintrc file, would be much appreciated. > In the docs: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/run-xfree86.php#xinitrc There are quite a few examples at the end of this section. > Thanks, > John > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
