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>3. Installing XFree86</A
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>It's quite likely that you obtained XFree86 as part of a Linux
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distribution, in which case downloading the software separately is not
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necessary. Or you may be able to get RPM binary packages built for your
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machine, in which case you can just install those using rpm(1). In either
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case you can skip this the rest of this section.</P
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>The Linux binary distributions of XFree86 can be found on a number of
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FTP sites. On the XFree86 site they are <A
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HREF="ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.1.0/binaries/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>here</A
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>.
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You will want either the Linux-axp-glibc21, Linux-ix86-glibc20, or
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Linux-ix86-glibc21 subdirectories, depending on your processor type
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(axp=alpha, ix86=Intel 80x86) and Gnu C library version.</P
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>Before doing anything else, download and run the `Xinstall.sh' shell
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script first. This may tell you about prerequisites you'll need to have in
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place before continuing your installation. Complete instructions for
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installing the XFree86 binary distribution are at <A
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HREF="http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Install2.html"
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>http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/Install2.html</A
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>.</P
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>The binary directory should contain release notes for the current
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version in <TT
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>RELNOTES</TT
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>. Consult those for installation
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details.</P
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>All that is required to install XFree86 is to obtain the above files,
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create the directory <TT
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>/usr/X11R6</TT
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> (as
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<TT
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>root</TT
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>), and unpack the files from
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<TT
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>/usr/X11R6</TT
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> with a command such as:</P
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>gzip -dc Xbin.tgz | tar xfB -</PRE
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<TT
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>/usr/X11R6</TT
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>You need to make sure that <TT
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>/usr/X11R6/bin</TT
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your path. This can be done by editing your system default
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>/etc/profile</TT
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> or <TT
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>/etc/csh.login</TT
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(based on the shell that you, or other users on your system, use). Or you
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can simply add the directory to your personal path by modifying
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<TT
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>.bashrc</TT
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> or <TT
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>.cshrc</TT
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>, based on your
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shell.</P
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>You also need to make sure that <TT
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>/usr/X11R6/lib</TT
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can be located by <B
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>ld.so</B
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>, the runtime linker. To do this,
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>to the file <TT
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>/etc/ld.so.conf</TT
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<TT
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>/sbin/ldconfig</TT
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