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Date:      Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:56:25 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree88-contrib install?
Message-ID:  <19981126115625.K67961@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981126115959.31848@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 11:59:59AM %2B1100
References:  <19981126115959.31848@welearn.com.au>

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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

Greg
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