On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, J. Michael Morse wrote: > RE: http://www.xfree86.org/4.2.0/Install2.html#2 > > OK, I went to the above website. It gave me a list of what files > to download. It stated to 'download the set of files for your > particular distribution.' I guess that means what 'brand' of > Linux I have? I have Suse but did not find a directory for > Suse. Will the files from what of the others work?
Michael, I strongly suggest that you do some reading of FAQs, HOWTOs, etc before you go ahead. The page http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.2.0/Install states quite clearly: <QUOTE> Our binaries are organized by sub-directories which correspond to each of the OS/platforms for which we provide binaries. First go to the sub-directory that represents your OS platform. In some cases (e.g., Linux) there may be a number of choices depending on the architecture or libc version your platform uses. In all case we recommend that you first download the Xinstall.sh script, and run it as in the following example to find out which binary dis- tribution you should download. sh Xinstall.sh -check The output of this utility tells you which is the correct set of binaries for you to download. If you are careful with this step you will save yourself a lot time and trouble from NOT downloading an incompatible distribution. </QUOTE> You need to spend a little while reading the information before going ahead. Otherwise you will have more questions than anyone can answer. -Oisin _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
