[Gloucs] Mandrake 9.1 and XFree86 4.3.0

Sean Keane sean at eon.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 30 11:02:10 GMT 2003


On Thursday 30 Oct 2003 10:49, bjh poked randomly at a keyboard and came up 
with:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Can anyone help with this question please from Noel who is a member of
> the Hereford LUG - thanks:
>
>
> "Hello,
>
> I have Mandrake 9.1 and on the 1st cd is XFree86 4.3.0
>
> It is in three files with the ending .rpm.  This is the first one.
>
> XFree86-static-libs-4.3-5mdk.i586.rpm
>
>
> Can anyone tell me how to load these up onto a *Windows system* to get a
> working X window there.
>

Can't be done...
He needs a windows executable ... such as XWin or something, or what's the 
name of that emulator ... CygWin might be able to do it, but it would be 
very slow!

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