Don't forget to do (as root)

ldconfig /usr/X11R6/lib   (and preferably add it in your rc.local too)

So kill me if that's bad advice ;-)


(continues below...[the bad advice]...)

At 14:03 23/1/96, Colin Wood wrote:
>> then when running startx i get the error "xinit: not found.
>It sounds like your problem is actually caused by having installed X in
>the wrong place.
--Nah. I installed it there (the binaries expand to that), and just did a
very simple mv command to put them in the correct place. Makes no
difference, afaik.

>It looks like the xinit program is just not currently in your path.
--This is also a sensible thing to do ;-)

>I would suggest that you remove the X distribution and
>reinstall it if this is not too much trouble.
--Sounds like it might not be necessary...

>If it is too much trouble,
>I would go back and check all your symbolic links to make sure that they
>were in fact pointing to where you think they are.  Finally, you might
>want to make sure that /usr/X11/bin is in your path, and that this in
>fact points to the right place.
-- /usr/X11R6/bin, rather. If desperate try just moving the files, rather
than a link, for all the difference it makes ;)

john.

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