Fwd: [Fink-beginners] x11 install doc addendum

2005/7/15, Alan Ng <[email protected]>:
> I hope it's appropriate to use fink-beginners-request to suggest adding
> the following brief instruction to the Web page:
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php?phpLang=en#apple-binary

Any ML is possible, but I think the doc team will discuss in fink-i18n ML.

> The 4th paragraph there is currently: "To use the Apple binaries, you
> need to make sure the X11 User package is installed, and you should also
> update Fink."
>
> I suggest adding the following sentence: "X11User.pkg can be found on
> the distribution DVD of OS 10.4 in
> /System/Installation/Packages/X11User.pkg."
>
> To give credit where it's due, I found this useful information here:
> http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2005/5/15/135965
>
> This tip is especially pertinent since X11SDK.pkg is already present on
> a new Mac's hard drive, but X11User.pkg is not. I was therefore under
> the mistaken impression that 10.4 seemed to come with X11User pre-installed.
>
> This apparently fixed my X11 problems.

Doc Team,

Should we write how to install X11User and X11SDK for each OS version?
Or better leave it as Apple's job?

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BABA Yoshihiko


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