easy install for X?

[Gaccm]

I was merrily going along with Xf86 3.3.latest when evil apt-get updated it to 4.0.2-1 and it screwed everything up. I wiped all X stuff and am going for a reinstall. I want to get 4.0 to work, I tried doing a tarball install but it didn't work, so i'm going to try and apt-get it. What do i need to do? is apt-get install xbase enough? or do i need to install Xbin, Xfont, etc.

[Blackknight]

X 4.02 is very easy to install. You need to get X402src-1.tgz X402src-2.tgz and X402src-3.tgz. Untar them, and cd to the 'xc' directory.

Do a 'make World' and a 'make install'. That's it, you're done. All you have to do then is run xf86config and configure your settings.

[Letalis]

I'd do "XFree86 --configure" and then "xf86cfg" instead of xf86config to be honest.

[This message has been edited by Letalis (edited 28 January 2001).]

[Gaccm]

what is the diff between those and xf86config?

[Gaccm]

sigh, i finally finish the compile (actually it was early today) and it ending with errors http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif a whole bunch of "leaving directory X" then "**** [all] Error 2" so blah for me :/ I wasn't able to install x4 by source or binary :/ sigh back to 3.3 untill it becomes stable (which i bet i still couldn't run)

[Ripley]

You *could* just download the binaries and do a manual install of XFree86 4.0.2

My suggestion would be to use Xinstall.sh (from the ftp site) only to decide what packages you need, then use http://xfree86.org/4.0.2/Install4.html#6 instructions to *manually* install it.

If you don't have all the files required to compile software, and you don't want to install them, this would be the only way. It also worked fine for me with a LFS setup.