Installing X

[MrNewbie]

I'm installing X on a LFS system so I've downloaded the 3 4.0.2 sources. Does the Xinstall.sh sort of automatically install the three source tars for you or do you have to do it yourself? The readme only tells you whats in the files not what the Xinstall script does.

[SubPar]

There's a great guide to installing X for LFS here. (http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-hints/X11Guide.txt)

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Got Konq (http://www.konqueror.org/)?

[demian]

As far as I know the Xinstall.sh is a shell script for the binary distribution... Extracting the three tarballs should be the easy part:
tar zxfv tarball_N.tar.gz
Compiling X from source is where the trouble starts... well, for me it did when I tried it with LFS and X v4.0.2
The guide that is linked in the previous post btw applies to v4.0.1 but can be used for 4.0.2 as well.


[This message has been edited by demian (edited 11 January 2001).]

[MrNewbie]

Thanks for the link. Am I to understand compiling X from source is tough?

[demian]

Originally posted by MrNewbie:
Thanks for the link. Am I to understand compiling X from source is tough?

... if everything goes well: no it's not. Give it a try. After all it's LFS and what else is it but a training system...
If you get some problems I'd be intrested in what it was as for me LFS + XF4.0.2 from source failed for now.

[ph34r]

I did my LFS system when X was still 3.3.5 for stable, and it was no problem - just took for fsckin ever.

[This message has been edited by ph34r (edited 11 January 2001).]

[MrNewbie]

ph34r: How long did it take and on what speed processor?

[PLBlaze]

I did compile xfree 4.0.2 from cvs@dri.sourceforge.net on LFS-2.4.2 without problems (wish i'd knew about the guide).On my PIII@600Mhz it took ~40 minutes to fully compile the xf source.Hope this helps.

[MrNewbie]

Ok thanks a lot. Btw, why is there only instructions for installing X from binary on the XFree86.org site?

[demian]

Originally posted by MrNewbie:
Ok thanks a lot. Btw, why is there only instructions for installing X from binary on the XFree86.org site?

...well there are instructions that come with the source code but basically they are saying: Ok you feel smart enough to do this from scratch. Well go ahead but if you run into trouble... your problem. Better grap the binary.