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Re: Missing file
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: Stephen Popik <spopik at altavista dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:16:03 +0100
- Subject: Re: Missing file
- Organization: convey Information Systems GmbH
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- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
Hallo Stephen,
2001-11-16 19:12:08, du schriebst:
>> I downloaded the Xfree86 binaries. Unfortunately Xmod.tgz is missing
>Tell me where it says in documents you Xmod.tgz is a required file. Here
> Install gives instructions and in those instructions is the following. The
> key word is mandatory.
> ----------------------------------------
> Once you're run the Xinstall.sh script and found which binary distribution
> is suitable for your system, download the necessary files. The twelve (12)
> mandatory files for all installations are listed below. If you have not
> downloaded all of the files, the installer script will complain.
> 1. Xinstall.sh The installer script
> 2. extract The utility for extracting tarballs
> 3. Xbin.tgz X clients/utilities and run-time libraries
> 4. Xlib.tgz Some data files required at run-time
> 5. Xman.tgz Manual pages
> 6. Xdoc.tgz XFree86 documentation
> 7. Xfnts.tgz Base set of fonts
> 8. Xfenc.tgz Base set of font encoding data
> 9. Xetc.tgz Run-time configuration files
> 10. Xvar.tgz Run-time data
> 11. Xxserv.tgz XFree86 X server
> 12. Xmod.tgz XFree86 X server modules
> --------------------------------------------
> File 12 is Xmod.tgz, and Xinstall.sh does complain, because Xmod.tgz is not
> there.
That is true, I read the same in my copy. But how is it possible that I'm
running X right now (I installed it with little problems, need to do it twice),
but it is up and running, I compiled blackbox, it works.
> The output from Xinstall.sh follows
> ============================================
...
> $ ./Xinstall.sh
> Checking for required files ...
> The files:
> Xmod.tgz
> must be present in the current directory to proceed with the
> installation. You should be able to find it at the same place
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