Font and .bat files missing when installing XFree86 only?

[Harold L Hunt II]

Hans Dekker wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Having downloaded a version of XFree86, I see a difference between a 
> previous version and this one:
> 
> - When installing de XFree86 option only, no fonts are installed. I had 
> to install (= copy) font files from a previous version and that worked. 
> Am I missing something?

You need the XFree86-fnts package at a minimum.  I am surprised that 
this was not automatically selected.  Are you sure that you selected 
XFree86-base?  That package lists XFree86-fnts as a dependency, so it 
should have been automatically selected.

> - Also, some useful .bat files of which startxwin.bat is one, are 
> missing from the current installation. Even when installing the complete 
> package wouldn't help. Why was that?

You have to pick the XFree86-startup-scripts package.

Hope that helps.

Harold