3 Installing XFree86

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Starting with version 3.0, XFree86 is installed in /usr/X11R6. If you don't have enough space for both X11R5 and X11R6, you'll have to make space by discarding unnecessary parts of X11R5. In particular, the fonts and old X11R5 binaries can be removed. The shared libraries must be retained in order to run dynamically-linked X11R5 binaries.

Each binary distribution of XFree86 3.X comes with a detailed installation document relevant to that release. The most up-to-date information is kept there, while this document describes basic features of XFree86 3.X on Linux and how to compile the sources.

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