aries@XP.PSYCH.NYU.EDU (Aries Arditi) (08/12/89)
We just received 3.1G, and after performing an automatic installation, now have all of the X11 include files, all the X11 directories, but NONE of the X11 binaries and man pages. Recently, some deer ate all the tomatoes off my tomato plants, but who could have taken all these files? Anybody else encounter a similar problem with 3.1G??? If so, how did you deal with it? Aries Arditi The Lighthouse 111 East 59th Street New York, NY 10022 212 355 2200 X1453 aries@xp.psych.nyu.edu -- -Aries
elkins@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Elkins) (08/12/89)
> We just received 3.1G, and after performing an automatic installation, now > ... You have to go back and use manual installation, list available subsystems, and you will notice that the X11R3 Execution Environment software and man pages have not been installed. It seems that you must manually select them for installation. George Elkins
donl@glass.wpd.sgi.com (donl mathis) (08/12/89)
In article <Aug.11.17.02.07.1989.21301@topaz.rutgers.edu>, elkins@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Elkins) writes: > > We just received 3.1G, and after performing an automatic installation, now > > ... > > You have to go back and use manual installation, list > available subsystems, and you will notice that the X11R3 Execution > Environment software and man pages have not been installed. It seems > that you must manually select them for installation. > > George Elkins This is true. The installation tool uses the online installation history to determine default subsystem selections. If an older version of the subsystem was installed, you get the new one by default. If you an older version could be installed but isn't, you don't get the new one by default. If there is no record of the subsystem one way or the other, such as the new X11 subsystem, you get the "builtin" default. Maintenance tapes were originally intended to be simple overlays of a reasonable subset of the other products, the assumption being that we would use them to provide a few new files. The builtin default is always "no", so that if an older subsystem is not already installed, you don't get the new one by default. Unfortunately, the X subsystems in 3.1G are new, and *can't* be already installed, so they never get installed by default. We have slightly abused the maintenance mechanism in 3.1G by introducing new subsystems, the result being that algorithm can't quite keep up. It will be fixed. In the mean time, the Subsystem Selection menu in Manual can be used to poke through the list of subsystems and make sure you're getting everything you want. -- - donl mathis at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA donl@sgi.com