Re: Upgrading XFree 86 to 4.3.0

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Quoth Danny Holten:

> Anyway, I do not have root access rights and I was wondering if it is
> still possible to update XFree and if so, how do I proceed? Help would
> be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I don't know how redhat deals with user-installed packages, but it is
highly unlikely that you'll be able to install this without being root.
And given the update instructions require you to upgrade packages to meet
dependencies, I don't think it's possible.

Since it's a laptop, there are ways around not having the root password,
but you probably don't have it for a reason :-) Easiest to get the root
passwd from whoever has it or get them to do the upgrade.

cheers
chris
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