Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 3.3.2 + patch 2 : Installing the XFree86 3.3.2 Release
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6. Installing the XFree86 3.3.2 Release

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).

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 available for Alpha hardware:
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 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.
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
The following are optional.
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.


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