Slack 9.0 and X

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 09:59:07 -0700
Collins Richey <erichey2 at attbi.com> wrote:

> OK, it appears that Slack by default has installed the latest and
> greatest xfree86-4.3.0-i386-2.  The version that I am using on gentoo
> (it works) is xfree-4.2.1-r2.  I notice that XFree86-4.2.1.1 is
> available in the Slack 9.0 pasture directory.  Several gentoo users
> have commented that 4.3.0 isn't all that stable.  Note, I'm using the
> built-in support (yeah, it's not that great) for my gforce2MX rather
> than screwing around with the nvidia kernel support.
> 
> How do I go about overlaying xfree on my Slack system?  I was hoping
> to find info in the howto, but I didn't.
> 

OK, I did find on google:

   1.  Become root
   2. cd to directory with package.tgz
   3. Run installpkg package.tgz 

Does this overlay a prior (and higher) installed version?  Do I need to
remove the higher level package first?  

--
Collins