Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020502114511.0264e478@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 11:47:11 -0700 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: "Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi, [ This message duplicates one with identical content (below this paragraph) to cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com, so please don't redirect this message to that list. ] 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/