Installing extra packages?

Andrew Markebo flognat@flognat.myip.org
Mon Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2002


/ Lars Jensen <jensen@physics.unr.edu> wrote:
| I juts tried to install Xf100.tgz on top of an initial xfree
| installation. The instructions in the Install file supplied with xfree
| 4.2.0 says to install the fonts by using 
| 
| extract -C /usr/X11R6 Xf100.tgz
| 
| I tried this and get an error that extract needs more flags. Which flags
| should I use to install extra packages?

I believe the included extract in cygwin xfree is gnu tar, so I think:
prompt> cd /usr/X11R6
prompt> tar xvfz Xf100.tgz 

is one correct way.. 

        /Andy

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