Font and .bat files missing when installing XFree86 only?

Font and .bat files missing when installing XFree86 only?

[Hans Dekker]

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?

- 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?

I downloaded the 1.5.5-1 version from different locations and installed 
it on WinXP.

Regards, Hans.

Re: 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

Re: Font and .bat files missing when installing XFree86 only?

[Hans Dekker]

Hi Harold,

I guess I got confused by the different versions and different download 
sites there are. Sometimes parts are not downloaded of which the setup 
program sees (or thinks) they already exist on the system, which left me 
with an incomplete version of Xfree.

Yesterday I deleted all there was and started a new download which seems 
to incorporate everything.

Thanks however, Hans.

Harold L Hunt II escribió:
> 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
> 
> 
> .
>