Hello all -- my name's Etha Williams. I'm 17/f/Santa Monica and a very
happy Mac OSX/Darwin user.
A while back I installed xfree86, but then my tech-illiterate mom
decided that having non-preinstalled packages on the computer was
causing the computer to "crash" (it froze once or twice) and thus
removed xfree86. Now I'm reinstalling xfree86, but not without
difficulties. When I log out and then enter again as >console and type
exec startx, a chunk of text appears for a slight second. Then, before
I can make out ANY of what it says, the screen flashes back to the
aqua OSX gui.
I encountered quite a few difficulties in my installation and I'm sure
this is what caused it, but I can't figure out what to do. Here's a
log of what happened when I ran sh xinstall.sh (which I downloaded
into the /usr/ directory):
[localhost:~] ann% sh xinstall.sh
Welcome to the XFree86 4.4.0 installer
You are strongly advised to backup your existing XFree86 installation
before proceeding. This includes the /usr/X11R6, /etc/X11
and /etc/fonts directories. The installation process will
overwrite existing files in those directories, and this may include
some configuration files that may have been customised.
If you are installing a version different from 4.4.0, you
may need an updated version of this installer script.
Do you wish to continue? (y/n) [n] y
Checking which OS you're running...
uname reports 'Darwin' version '5.5', architecture 'Power Macintosh'.
Bindist version is 4.4.0
Checking for required files ...
Creating /usr/X11R6
mkdir: /usr/X11R6: Permission denied
Creating /usr/X11R6/lib
mkdir: /usr/X11R6/lib: No such file or directory
Creating /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
mkdir: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11: No such file or directory
Creating /etc/X11
mkdir: /etc/X11: Permission denied
Creating /etc/fonts
mkdir: /etc/fonts: Permission denied
Removing some old files that are no longer required...
Removing some old directories that are no longer required...
Creating /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
mkdir: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb: No such file or directory
Extracting Xetc.tgz into a temporary location ...
== Extracting /Users/ann/Xetc.tgz ==
Installing the app-defaults config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/app-defaults: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the fs config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/fs: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs:
No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the lbxproxy config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/lbxproxy: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lbxproxy: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/lbxproxy: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the proxymngr config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/proxymngr: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the rstart config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/rstart: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rstart: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rstart: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the twm config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/twm: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/twm:
No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the xdm config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/xdm: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm:
No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the xinit config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/xinit: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the xsm config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/xsm: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xsm:
No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the xserver config files ...
mkdir: /etc/X11/xserver: No such file or directory
ln: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
mkdir: /etc/X11/xkb: No such file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Cannot change to directory /etc/X11/xkb: No such
file or directory
/Users/ann/gnu-tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing the fonts.conf config file ...
+ cp -p .etctmp/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
cp: /etc/fonts/fonts.conf: No such file or directory
Installing the fonts.dtd config file ...
+ cp -p .etctmp/fonts/fonts.dtd /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd
cp: /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd: No such file or directory
Installing the mandatory parts of the binary distribution
xinstall.sh: cd: no such file or directory: /usr/X11R6 [1512]
== Extracting /Users/ann/Xbin.tgz ==
xinstall.sh: cd: no such file or directory: /usr/X11R6 [1512]
== Extracting /Users/ann/Xlib.tgz ==
xinstall.sh: cd: no such file or directory: /usr/X11R6 [1512]
== Extracting /Users/ann/Xman.tgz ==
xinstall.sh: cd: no such file or directory: /usr/X11R6 [1512]
== Extracting /Users/ann/Xdoc.tgz ==
xinstall.sh: cd: no such file or directory: /usr/X11R6 [1512]
== Extracting /Users/ann/Xfnts.tgz ==
xinstall.sh: cd: no such file or directory: /usr/X11R6 [1512]
== Extracting /Users/ann/Xfenc.tgz ==
xinstall.sh: cd: no such file or directory: /usr/X11R6 [1512]
== Extracting /Users/ann/Xxserv.tgz ==
xinstall.sh: cd: no such file or directory: /usr/X11R6 [1512]
== Extracting /Users/ann/Xquartz.tgz ==
Checking for post-release updates ...
Checking for optional components to install ...
You appear to have a termcap file: /usr/share/misc/termcap
This should be edited manually to replace the xterm entries
with those in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap
Note: the new xterm entries are required to take full advantage
of new features, but they may cause problems when used with
older versions of xterm. A terminal type 'xterm-r6' is included
for compatibility with the standard X11R6 version of xterm.
Installation complete.
I think one of the major problems I'm encountering is the problem that
permission is denied for the mkdir commands. How should I go about
changing the permissions for this? Also, how can I "edit manually to
replace the xterm entries with those in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/etc/xterm.termcap (which, incidentally, doesn't
exist due to my lacking permission to mkdir in the first place)?
Sorry if I'm being vague with my questions/problems...but quite
frankly, I don't know what to do myself at this point. I've tried
manually making my own directories (/usr/X11R6/, &c) but that didn't
seem to do any good.
Thanks in advance,
Etha.
--
"Question authority."
"Are you sure that's a good idea?"
"Shut up. Of course it is."
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
~Philip K. Dick
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