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1. How to get the XFree86 4.4.0 source
The recommended way of getting the XFree86 4.4.0 source is to
obtain it directly from the XFree86 CVS repository. There are several
ways of doing that, and they are described at our CVS web page The CVS tag for this release is
"xf-4_4_0". The tag for the maintenance branch
for this release is "xf-4_4-branch".
Another method of getting the XFree86 4.4.0 source is to
either download the 4.4.0 source tarballs from the XFree86 ftp
site. The procedure for this is as follows:
- The XFree86 4.4.0 source is contained in the files:
XFree86-4.4.0-src-1.tgz
XFree86-4.4.0-src-2.tgz
XFree86-4.4.0-src-3.tgz
XFree86-4.4.0-src-4.tgz
XFree86-4.4.0-src-5.tgz
XFree86-4.4.0-src-6.tgz
XFree86-4.4.0-src-7.tgz
These can be found at ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/source/
and similar locations on XFree86 mirror sites.
XFree86-4.4.0-src-4.tgz and
XFree86-4.4.0-src-5.tgz contains the fonts.
XFree86-4.4.0-src-6.tgz contains the documentation
source. XFree86-4.4.0-src-7.tgz contains the
hardcopy documentation. XFree86-4.4.0-src-1.tgz,
XFree86-4.4.0-src-2.tgz and
XFree86-4.4.0-src-3.tgz contains everything
else. If you don't need the docs or fonts you can get by with
only XFree86-4.4.0-src-1.tgz,
XFree86-4.4.0-src-2.tgz and
XFree86-4.4.0-src-3.tgz.
- Extract each of these files by running the following from a directory
on a filesystem containing enough space (the full source requires
around 305MB, and a similar amount is required in addition to this
for the compiled binaries):
gzip -d < XFree86-4.4.0-src-1.tgz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < XFree86-4.4.0-src-2.tgz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < XFree86-4.4.0-src-3.tgz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < XFree86-4.4.0-src-4.tgz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < XFree86-4.4.0-src-5.tgz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < XFree86-4.4.0-src-6.tgz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < XFree86-4.4.0-src-7.tgz | tar vxf -
Alternatively, if you already have a pristine copy of the XFree86
4.3.0 source, you can download patches from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/patches/ that will allow
you to convert it to 4.4.0. Information about which patch files to
download and how to apply them can be found in the "How to get XFree86"
section of the README for this release.
All methods will produce one main source directory called xc.
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