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"Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 11:04:36 -0700
- Subject: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages
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