How do you upgrade to XR117

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Jan 29 22:00:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:46:41PM -0800, jchas5 wrote:
>I have been looking through the cygwin mirrors for the last two days
>trying to find the X11R7 packages via setup.exe.  When I go to the X11
>tab, I can not find any X11R7 packages.  I have tried to install them
>twoce and all I get is X11R6.
>
>Sorry if this a lame question, I just do know where to look, google
>doesn't seem to provide any specific advice other than use the cygwin
>setup.exe file and it will update automatically.

Any mirror that is available via setup.exe has the newest X.org
packages.

If you are looking for something called "X11R7" that may part of your
problem.  setup.exe simply refers to the newer packages as "X.org".

Otherwise, see the problem reporting guidelines mentioned here:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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