RE: Problem installing Xfree

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

Download everything in /tmp directory (or, if you have already downloaded
and not deleted, move everything to /tmp directory) then use

sh Xinstall.sh command from /tmp directory.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bags [mailto:gray_bags@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 10:31 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Problem installing Xfree
> 
> 
> Hello there!
> 
> I have tried to install the Xfree packages, I execute the 
> ./Xinstall.sh
> script and I get a lot of "command not found" errors, please 
> see below.
> Could this be a problem with my Windows 2000 machine? I am 
> installing it on
> a machine where I do not have local admin privledges, but the 
> fact is I am
> able to excute these commands if I type them by hand. Any 
> help appreciated!
> 
> Graeme.
> 
> 
> # $ ./Xinstall.sh
> 
>                 Welcome to the XFree86 4.1.0 installer
> 
> You are strongly advised to backup your existing XFree86 installation
> before proceeding.  This includes the /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11
> directories.  The installation process will overwrite existing files
> in those directories, and this may include some configuration files
> that may have been customised.
> 
> If you are installing a version different from 4.1.0, you
> may need an updated version of this installer script.
> 
> Do you wish to continue? (y/n) [n] y
> 
> Checking which OS you're running...
> uname reports 'CYGWIN_NT-5.0' version '1.3.2(0.39/3/2)', 
> architecture '
> 
> chmod: changing permissions of `extract': No such file or directory
> //gnu-tar: not found
> Warning: can't detect the bindist version
> Checking for required files ...
> 
> 
> Removing some old directories that are no longer required...
> 
> Extracting Xetc.tgz into a temporary location ...
> //extract: not found
> Do you want to overwrite the app-defaults config files? (y/n) [n] n
> 
> 
>