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Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages
- From: Matt Wilkie <patawi at polarcom dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 14:31:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.xfree
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020502105520.00b016a8@pop3.cris.com>
I haven't seen an answer to this one yet. Is that because no one knows?
I'm in the same boat.
-matt wilkie
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed XFree86/Cygwin via the "semi-manual" procedure that predates
> the release of Setup.exe packages.
>
> I want to know how I should handle switching over to the Setup.exe-based
> installation of XFree86/Cygwin.
>
> Should I just download the packages and install "over" the existing
> XFree86/Cygwin installation? (I always download binary & source packages
> and then separately install only the binaries, keeping the sources in
> tarball form until I should happen to need them).
>
> If it matters, I've installed a couple of separate XFree86 software
> packages (XFig and the NCAR Graphics and NCL systems). The NCAR software
> installation isn't trivial, so if I could avoid having to redo it, that
> would be preferable.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>