Re: How to remove OroborOSX/XDarwin now that I have X11
Re: How to remove OroborOSX/XDarwin now that I have X11
- Subject: Re: How to remove OroborOSX/XDarwin now that I have X11
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:05:41 -0600
To delete XDarwin and OroborOSX:
1. Drag XDarwin.app to the trash.
2. Drag OroborOSX.app to the trash.
3. There is to step 3.
But seriously: if you want to *completely* purge the old X11
installation, all you have to do is:
sudo rm -rf /usr/X11R6
sudo rm -rf /etc/X11
and remove the associated applications from /Applications
There is nothing in /sw or /usr/local related to XDarwin or OroborOSX.
Make sure you install Apple X11 0.2.1 (the latest as of this moment -
always make sure you have the latest), not an earlier version.
(You may have a .xinitrc somewhere with custom configs from your old
X11 installation...ordinarily, this would be in your home directory.
Remove this, or change its name, to start off clean.).
As for fink: as I said before, make sure you keep your fink
installation up-to-date by using "fink selfupdate" (or "fink
selfupdate-cvs" to update directly from cvs) and "fink update-all"
regularly. This ensures you have the latest packages, package
information, and things like system-xfree86 which is the placeholder
for a non-fink X11 installation, like Apple X11.
(Note: if you *really* wanted to start off from scratch, though I don't
think you need to, you could even remove and reinstall fink. To remove
fink, all you do is:
sudo rm -rf /sw
That's it. And you'd want to make sure you start off with the Fink
0.5.1 binary installer, and then do the updating above to get
everything up to date.)
Regards,
Dave Schroeder
University of Wisconsin - Madison
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 07:43 AM, Robert L. Vaessen wrote:
Help -
I'm drowning in unix!
Once upon a time, I braved the waters and dove head long into the new
possibilities of OS X. I installed as much XWindows stuff as I could,
I downloaded, built libraries, compiled, and installed unix components
to my hearts delight.
I had XDarwin and OroborOSX installed and running on my Mac.
Everything was going good. I was using Fink, and occasionally
installing libraries and compiling binaries all by myself.
Along came Apple's X11. I installed it, and now I find myself dragging
around all this extra baggage that no longer works. It's hiding in
directories like /sw/bin, /usr/X11R6/bin, /usr/local/bin, etc. I know
it's there, I can smell it's fetid stench, the odor of decaying
binaries...
I still have OroborOSX and XDarwin on my computer, but neither of them
appear to work. In addition, I also have some applications that do not
work, and I'm sure that their are a bunch of incompatible
libraries/directories lingering on as well.
What do I need to remove, purge, delete, in order to keep Apple's X11
healthy? It's running fine, but I'd very much like to purge my system
of anything unnecessary (in regards to all that unix stuff I added).
Where's the fat? How do I get rid of these maligerer's?
- Robert
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