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Re: Installing XFree86 3.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Thu Nov 7 12:12:18 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 11:39:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Willem Riede wrote:
> Seeing this question and answer, makes me wonder what other dependenies
> exist that may be a problem to put XFree86-3.2 on a RedHat 3.0.3 upgraded
> with 2.0.0 kernel? Is it safe to do so, or *must* full RH 4.0 be installed?
No, it's not safe to put XFree86 3.2 on *any* Red Hat system. It's safer
putting it on 4.0 then anything else though.
When you upgrade you're changing the shared libs apps use. That always has
the possibility of breaking things.
Erik
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