Re: Error getting Tiger's X11 installed on Leopard
Re: Error getting Tiger's X11 installed on Leopard
- Subject: Re: Error getting Tiger's X11 installed on Leopard
- From: Robert T Wyatt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:46:09 -0600
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
Josh Colwell wrote:
> Leopard's X11 is unusable with IDL (the Interactive Data Language) that
> I use for the bulk of my work (X11 crashes out regularly), so I tried to
> follow Ben Byer's recipe to install Tiger's X11. I run into this error
> on the third step:
> sudo ditto -Vx --noqtn /Volumes/X11\ Update\ 2006/X11Update2006.pkg/
> Contents/Archive.pax.gz /
> Password:
>>>> Copying /Volumes/X11 Update 2006/X11Update2006.pkg
> ditto: /Volumes/X11 Update 2006/X11Update2006.pkg: Is a directory
>
>>>> Copying /Contents/Archive.pax.gz
> ditto: /Contents/Archive.pax.gz: No such file or directory
>
>
> I'm not a sysadmin, I'm a scientist desperately trying to get back to a
> stable X11 system so I can do my research, so if anyone can help me get
> out of this mess and how to get Tiger's X11 running on my machine I
> would be most grateful.
>
> Josh
Hi Josh,
Did you try the "quick install" directions near the top of this page?
http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin
curl -LO http://people.freedesktop.org/~jeremyhu/x11-apple/x11_update.sh
sudo sh x11_update.sh
(These are two commands on two lines even though line-wrapping may
make it look like three.)
I ask because 1) that works for me and 2) I don't know which set of
instructions you're following.
Best,
Robert
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