On Sep 1, 2006, at 9:06 PM, Logan Trenaman wrote:
Hi there,
I just recently bought a mac with Mac OS X 10.4.7 installed, i've
downloaded and tried to install X11 but it says i have newer
software installed and therefore cannot install it. I also tried
to install openoffice without having installed X11 and is says that
i must have that installed to continue. Any suggestions?
I had the same problem last week. I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.7 on an
eMac (PPC chip).
I got some guidance from this group. You have to get rid of the X11
that you have now before you can install the version you need. I
couldn't find it on my hard drive (it should be in the Utilities
folder), but the "Spotlight" utility (the "Q" in the upper right-hand
corner of the screen) found it. I dragged it from the Spotlight
window to the trash, and "secure emptied" the trash (actually
emptying the trash turned out to be a crucial step).
Then I got out my install DVD, scrolled down to "Optional Installs"
and double-clicked on that. Clicked through continue, agree,
continue, chose my hard drive as the disk to install onto, clicked
continue, clicked on the triangle next to "Applications" and clicked
on X11 at the bottom of the list, and clicked on install. (Obviously
I did this from an administrator account with no other programs
running. I can't remember if I re-started after installing it or not)
Then OOo worked fine. When you launch OOo, it opens X11 (the X window
system is the graphical interface used by many UNIX flavors) so that
it can work. If the little X11 window bothers you, just click on the
yellow light and let it drop down to the Dock.
Someone else had a different experience than I did and found that the
X11 download on the Apple site worked for them; it didn't work for
me, and most people say to use the version on your installation CD.
Good luck! I love OOo.
Fran
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