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Date:      Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:42:18 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree88-contrib install?
Message-ID:  <19981126124218.P67961@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9811251952240.21024-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>; from Steve Price on Wed, Nov 25, 1998 at 07:54:51PM -0600
References:  <19981126115625.K67961@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.OSF.4.02.9811251952240.21024-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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On Wednesday, 25 November 1998 at 19:54:51 -0600, Steve Price wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 26 November 1998 at 11:59:59 +1100, Sue Blake wrote:
>>> Could someone bring me up to speed on how XFree86-contrib gets installed?
>>> I think it's available as a port but not a package. Is it also an option
>>> when XFree is chosen during FreeBSD installation, or do most newbies get it
>>> automatically?
>>
>> Strange, another person round your way just asked me that question.
>> It's not a port, it's the original XFree86 source tree for contrib.
>> Here's what I told him:
>>
>>> OK.  This is an archive of /usr/X11R6/contrib.  You need to do the
>>> following things:
>>>
>>> 1.  Unpack the archive into /usr/X11R6/contrib
>>> 2.  cd /usr/X11R6/contrib
>>>     xmkmf
>>>     make Makefiles depend all install
>
> 'ports/x11/XFree86-contrib' isn't what you are looking for?

Well, no, if I had looked for it, I would have found it :-)  But it
looks like I *should* have been looking for it.

> If it is, then all you have to do is a 'make install' in that
> directory.

Thanks
Greg
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