Upgrading XFree86 4.1 to 4.2

[Keith Antoine]

On Sunday 07 April 2002 07:31 pm, Susan Macchia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running a pretty much stock SuSE 7.3 distro running XFree 4.1.1 with
> kde 2.2.1 and gnome 1.4.
>
> I'm thinking of upgrading to XFree86 4.2 and was wondering if I'd have to
> update my kde and gnome packages.  Having never upgraded X before, I didn't
> know if this'd break my system.  I do have a test partition w/ a stock SuSE
> 7.3 install that I'll probably try it on first, but was wondering if there
> was anything obvious I should look out for.
>
> TIA

Just install the rpms from a command line login use "sh Xinstall.sh and follow 
the bouncing ball; accept defaults and you'll have no problems.

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
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Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage