The XFree86 3.3.2 binaries are distributed as both a full release and as an upgrade to XFree86 3.3.1.
NOTE: the X servers are no longer installed setuid root. If you are starting your X servers with startx/xinit, or something similar, you will need a copy of the setuid Xwrapper, and an updated xinit. These can be found in X332upd.tgz for those upgrading from 3.3.1, and in X332bin.tgz for those doing a full install.
What follows is a list of the XFree86 3.3.2 components. There may be some variations in this for some OSs.
The following are required for all new installations or upgrades from versions prior to 3.3.1:
preinst.sh Pre-installation script postinst.sh Post-installation script extract XFree86 extraction utility X332bin.tgz Clients, run-time libs, and app-defaults files X332doc.tgz Documentation X332fnts.tgz 75dpi, misc and PEX fonts X332lib.tgz Data files required at run-time X332man.tgz Manual pages X332set.tgz XF86Setup utility X332VG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server) X3322upd.tgz XFree86 3.3.2 patch 2 update
The following are required for an upgrade from XFree86 3.3.1:
preinst.sh Pre-installation script postinst.sh Post-installation script extract XFree86 extraction utility X332upd.tgz Changes since 3.3.1 (except the servers) X332doc.tgz Documentation X332set.tgz XF86Setup utility X332VG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server) X3322upd.tgz XFree86 3.3.2 patch 2 update
The following is required for new installations, and optional for existing installations:
X332cfg.tgz sample config files for xinit, xdm
NOTE: Be very careful about installing X332cfg.tgz over an existing installation if you have customised your xinit and/or xdm config files. Installing X332cfg.tgz will overwrite any existing files. If you do have customised files, there is no need to install X332cfg.tgz.
NOTE: The bitmap fonts distributed with this release are compressed using gzip rather than compress. This means that you will probably want to remove the old versions (after backing them up). The Xservers and font server in releases prior to 3.2A cannot read gzipped fonts, so keep a copy of the old fonts if you wish to run older servers.
The following X servers are for PC/AT based hardware (i.e., typical Intel ix86 based PCs). Choose at least one which matches your hardware, as well as the VGA16 server. The VGA16 server is required by the new configuration utility (XF86Setup).
The following X servers are available for Alpha hardware:X3328514.tgz 8514/A server X332AGX.tgz AGX server X332I128.tgz I128 server X332Ma32.tgz Mach 32 server X332Ma64.tgz Mach 64 server X332Ma8.tgz Mach 8 server X332Mono.tgz Mono server X332P9K.tgz P9000 server X332S3.tgz S3 server X332S3V.tgz old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server) X332SVGA.tgz SVGA server X332VG16.tgz 16 colour VGA server (XF86Setup needs this server) X332W32.tgz ET4000/W32, ET6000 server
The following X servers are for PC98 hardware. If you have a PC98 machine, choose one which suits your hardware. If you don't know what a PC98 machine is, you don't need any of these.X332Ma64.tgz Mach 64 server X332Mono.tgz Mono server (generic driver only) X332P9K.tgz P9000 server X332TGA.tgz DEC 21030 (TGA) server X332S3.tgz S3 server X332S3V.tgz old S3 ViRGE server (please use SVGA server) X332SVGA.tgz SVGA server (Matrox Millennium driver only)
The following are optional.X3329NS3.tgz PC98 NEC(S3) server X3329SPW.tgz PC98 PCSKB-PowerWindow(S3) server X3329LPW.tgz PC98 PowerWindowLB(S3) server X3329EGC.tgz PC98 EGC(generic) server X3329GA9.tgz PC98 GA-968V4/PCI(S3 968) server X3329GAN.tgz PC98 GANB-WAP(cirrus) server X3329480.tgz PC98 PEGC-480(generic) server X3329NKV.tgz PC98 NKV-NEC(cirrus) server X3329WS.tgz PC98 WABS(cirrus) server X3329WEP.tgz PC98 WAB-EP(cirrus) server X3329WSN.tgz PC98 WSN-A2F(cirrus) server X3329TGU.tgz PC98 TGUI server X3329MGA.tgz PC98 MGA server X3329SVG.tgz PC98 CLGD755x server X3329set.tgz PC98 XF98Setup utility
X332f100.tgz 100dpi fonts X332fcyr.tgz Cyrillic fonts X332fnon.tgz Other fonts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew) X332fscl.tgz Scalable fonts (Speedo and Type1) X332fsrv.tgz Font server and config files X332prog.tgz X header files, config files and compile-time libs X332nest.tgz Nested X server X332vfb.tgz Virtual framebuffer X server X332prt.tgz X Print server X332ps.tgz PostScript version of the documentation X332html.tgz HTML version of the documentation X332jdoc.tgz Documentation in Japanese (for version 3.2) X332jhtm.tgz HTML version of the documentation in Japanese (3.2) X332lkit.tgz X server LinkKit X332lk98.tgz X server LinkKit for PC98 servers
If you already have a version of XFree86 installed, MAKE A BACKUP OF
/usr/X11R6
BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE. The standard
installation procedure will overwrite your existing version of XFree86.
If you are installing from scratch, create a directory called
/usr/X11R6
, then extract the required .tgz
files.
If you don't have enough space in /usr
for this, create a
directory elsewhere and create a symbolic link to it.
E.g., if you create a directory in /home
:
mkdir /home/X11R6
ln -s /home/X11R6 /usr
The next step is to run the pre-installation script. This script makes some preliminary checks of your system. For some OSs, it may tell you to install new versions of some system components before proceeding with the installation. This script may also remove some outdated files and symbolic links from a previous installation that could cause problems.
For the purposes of these installation instructions, it is assumed that
you have downloaded all the files to the /var/tmp
directory.
If you've put them in another directory, that's fine -- just replace
all occurrences of ``/var/tmp
'' with the name of that directory.
To run the pre-installation script, go to /usr/X11R6
and run it:
cd /usr/X11R6
sh /var/tmp/preinst.sh
The next step is to make the installation utility executable. To do this, make sure the `extract' file is in the same directory as all the X332*.tgz files, and run the following from that directory:
chmod 755 extract
The installation utility ``extract'' is used to unpack the .tgz files that make up the XFree86 distribution. The .tgz files are gzipped tar files. However, ``tar'' in its standard form on most OSs is not well-suited to the task of installing XFree86. The extract utility is a modified version of GNU tar 1.12 built with the options required to make it suitable for installing XFree86. The source for extract is available from the same place you got the XFree86 distribution.
It is strongly recommended that you use the provided extract utility to unpack the XFree86 distribution. If you choose to ignore this and use something else, we don't want to hear from you if you run into problems. It is also important that you do not rename the extract utility. If renamed, it behaves just like the normal GNU tar.
To extract the XFree86 binaries, run the following as root:
cd /usr/X11R6
/var/tmp/extract /var/tmp/X332[8-z]*.tgz
/var/tmp/extract /var/tmp/X3322upd.tgz
NOTE: It is important to extract X3322upd.tgz after X332lib.tgz, X332bin.tgz and X332prog.tgz because they replace the X11, Xt, Xaw, and Xmu libraries and the xterm program with updated versions that have important security fixes. Some other things are also updated. X3322upd.tgz supersedes the previous update (X3321upd.tgz), so there is no need to have installed X3321upd.tgz before installing X3322upd.tgz.
Once the required .tgz
files have been extracted, run the post
installation script:
cd /usr/X11R6
sh /var/tmp/postinst.sh
For OSs which use ldconfig, you may need to run ldconfig or reboot to complete the installation. The postinst.sh script should run ldconfig correctly for you if you are using Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. For other OSs that use ldconfig, check how it normally gets run at boot time.