Re: ppc XF 4.0??


Subject: Re: ppc XF 4.0??
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Sun Oct 08 2000 - 07:04:25 MDT


Well Jack Howarth made PowerPC binaries:

ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/howarth/xf4/
  
When you run into dependancy problems... just send an e-mail to the list and
I or someone will be able to help you resolve them all. If it's that important
to you.

:-)

Regards,
Charles

On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> I'm not all that comfortable with linux yet to do any manual dependency fixing, I have however
> installed xf4 from binaries on an intel machine, but I don't know if there are any oit
> there...
>
> Charles Stevenson wrote:
>
> > You could try using YUP to install it... although I believe it will take a bit
> > of manual dependancy fixing on your part. You'll have to remove this and that
> > RPM in order to get it to install. Then reinstall any RPMS that you had to
> > remove after installing XF4..
> >
> > Regards,
> > Charles
> >
> > On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > > I tried the rpm, but it complained about dependincy problems or something like that, and
> > > couldnt install.
> > >
> > > Charles Stevenson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm running 4.01 on my iBook... you can find 4.0 info and RPMS at:
> > > >
> > > > http://penguinppc.org/usr/xf4/
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Charles
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > > > > I installed CS 1.2.1 on my powerbook, but have not been able to get x working. I
> > > > > remember reading that I should get Xfree 4.0, and when I ran Xinstall -check to see
> > > > > what binaries I needed it said there were no binaries for the architecture(ppc). I
> > > > > don't know if this has anything to do with this but the kernel I'm using is the one
> > > > > that came with CS 1.2.1 something like 2.2.17-0.6.1 , and not one of Ben H's
> > > > > kernels. I don't think that has anything to do with X, I think I just need to find
> > > > > the Xfree4.0 that is for Power PCs, so if anybody can help me I would appreciate it
> > > > > very much.
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