Re: Xquartz on 10.6.8 Server (problem)
Re: Xquartz on 10.6.8 Server (problem)
- Subject: Re: Xquartz on 10.6.8 Server (problem)
- From: JF Mezei <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:12:35 -0400
On 15-04-13 15:43, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>
>> the printing add-on "foomatic" which uses Ghostscript to generate raster
>> files to send to various printers (like dot matrix) expects files to be
>> in /usr/X11 which no longer exists, since you moved everything to
>> /opt/X11. Adding a soft link from /usr/X11 to /opt/X11 solved the problem.
>
> That should be done as part of the installation process. The post-install script does:
>
> [[ -e /usr/X11 ]] || ln -s /opt/X11 /usr/X11
> [[ -e /usr/X11R6 ]] || ln -s /opt/X11 /usr/X11R6
>
On my laptop, where the /usr X11 and X11R6 directories were savagely
zapped without warning by the Yosemite upgrade, the above links were
not created when I installed xQuartz. (2.7.7)
On my Snow Leopard systems, since the old X11 was still in place, the
above would not have executed. However, when I encountered problems on
the server, I used the working Yosemite install as template and deleted
the old /usr X11 and X11R6 directories since they didn't appear to be
needed (which is when I saw foomatic start to fail).
Obviously, I learned by myself those links are necessary for foomatic.
But I am commenting since it wasn't made ovvious to me during the
XQuartz install of the changes in directories and expectation to have
that soft link from old to new.
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