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RE: unable to install xfree86


Wuttke,

You are correct, the User's Guide is not current with the details of the
2001-04-14 release.  I'm updating the User's Guide right now.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Wuttke
> Joachim
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 12:05 PM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com'
> Subject: unable to install xfree86
>
>
> I tried to install xfree86, following the instructions in
> http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/docs/howto/cygwin-xfree-downloading.html.
>
>    Question 1: is this the up-to-date documentation ?
>
> Following instruction (1), I went to the mirror
> ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/.
> I went down to
> ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnu
> s/xfree/xc-4-binaries/
>
> where I did not find the files listed in instruction (3) of the
> documentation.
> I went down to
> ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnu
> s/xfree/xc-4-binaries/4.0.3/
>
> where I found a number of files with names like
> xfree86-4.0.3-DLLs.tar.bz2.
> Not all of these correspond to files named in the documentation.
>
>    Question 2: which of these binaries do I need ?
>
> Now comes the big PROBLEM: I cannot decompress all files. In
> some cases
> bunzip2.exe works, in other cases it suggests that the
> compressed files
> have become corrupted.
>
>    Question 3: what has happened ? what can I do ?
>
> Thanks in advance - Joachim Wuttke
>
>


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