RE: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

No one knows.

You can install with setup.exe over top of your last installation, but you
need to install *at leat* the same packages that you installed manually,
else you won't get updates for all XFree86 packages, and you won't be able
to uninstall all packages with setup.exe.

Other than that, I don't think it will cause big problems, but someone
should test it out and report back to us.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Matt Wilkie
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 5:32 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe
> XFree86 Packages
>
>
> I haven't seen an answer to this one yet. Is that because no one knows?
> I'm in the same boat.
>
> -matt wilkie
>
>
> Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
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