Re: Fwd: [Fink-beginners] x11 install doc addendum

BABA Yoshihiko wrote:

>2005/7/15, Alan Ng <[email protected]>:
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>>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
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>Any ML is possible, but I think the doc team will discuss in fink-i18n ML.
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>>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."
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>>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."
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>>To give credit where it's due, I found this useful information here:
>>http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2005/5/15/135965
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>>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.
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>>This apparently fixed my X11 problems.
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>Doc Team,
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>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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We'll do it.  I'm working on it right now.

--AH


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