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Re: Installation fails if I select "Scaleable Fonts" under XFree86


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 vhellman@kotiposti.net wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I try to install XFree86 but it fails during the download.
> Next PopUp appears:
> "Download Incomplete. Try again?"
> I even tried different Download sites, but still the same problem occured.
>
> Then I installed it without Scalable Fonts => XFree86-fscl
> I managed to install it.
>
> Then I try to install only Scalable Fonts => XFree86-fscl, but it fails again with same message.
> It fails when it try to download  XFree86-fscl-4.2.0-3.tar.bz2.
>
> I really needs the Scalable Fonts.
> So how to get it?
> (OS = w2k server + SP3)
>
> Br,
> Vesa

Umm, use a different mirror?  You can also look in /var/log/setup.log.full
to see what caused the failure (but be aware that this file is overwritten
on every run of setup.exe).
	Igor
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