8
Building the X Window System
By necessity, you can't do anything with X until it is installed on your system. This chapter tells you how to build and install X.
In This Chapter:
Types of Vendor-supplied X Distributions
Complete or Client-only Distribution?
Installing Multiple X Releases
Do You Have Enough Disk Space?
Creating a Link Tree (Optional)
Changing the tmp Directory Using TMPDIR (Ultrix and HP-UX)
Changing the tmp Directory Using -temp (SunOS)
Shared Library Installation (SunOS)
NFS Installation Without Root Access
Installation Over the Network (rdist)
Installing the termcap or terminfo Definition for xterm
The Platform Configuration File (platform.cf)
Building Programs After X Is Installed
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