Sunday, September 7, 2014

Installing X Window System for Linux

X Window System is an open source GUI for Linux OS.

More on X Window is located at: http://www.x.org/wiki/

Index of releases available for download is located at: http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/src/

Basically, it is not one single application file you have to download, run install, and let it be it.
There is a set of files that you'd have to download to make X Window work. Since it is open source, these have not been packaged together for commercial use, but they are small files so although repetitive, shouldn't take too much time to download.

Look for these files in the release directory to download. As of this release these are required:

- Xbin.tgz
- Xcfg.tgz
- Xdoc.tgz
- Xlib.tgz
- Xfnts.tgz
- Xman.tgz
- Xset.tgz
- XVG16.tgz
- preinst.sh
- postinst.sh
- extract.exe

There are other optional files in the directories pertaining to viewing PDF files, post script fonts, etc., that may be useful as these functionalities are now fairly common.

Download, and install on Linux to run any application that may display a GUI on Linux.


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