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"Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages


Hi,

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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


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