"Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

[Matt Wilkie]

I haven't seen an answer to this one yet. Is that because no one knows? 
I'm in the same boat.

-matt wilkie


Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed XFree86/Cygwin via the "semi-manual" procedure that predates 
> the release of Setup.exe packages.
> 
> I want to know how I should handle switching over to the Setup.exe-based 
> installation of XFree86/Cygwin.
> 
> Should I just download the packages and install "over" the existing 
> XFree86/Cygwin installation? (I always download binary & source packages 
> and then separately install only the binaries, keeping the sources in 
> tarball form until I should happen to need them).
> 
> If it matters, I've installed a couple of separate XFree86 software 
> packages (XFig and the NCAR Graphics and NCL systems). The NCAR software 
> installation isn't trivial, so if I could avoid having to redo it, that 
> would be preferable.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>