How to install XFree86

                   Installation Details for XFree86® 4.5.0

                          The XFree86 Project, Inc

                               2 February 2005

                                  Abstract

      How to install XFree86.

1.  Introduction

This document contains information about installing the XFree86 binaries pro-
vided by The XFree86 Project.

The XFree86 binaries that we provide for UNIX-like OS's (Linux, the BSDs,
Solaris, etc) are packaged in a platform-independent gzipped tar format, aka
"tarballs," identified by the .tgz suffix.  Along with the binaries we pro-
vide a customized version of the GNU tar utility called "extract" and an
installation script.  We recommend that these be used to install the bina-
ries.  (The source for this customized version of GNU tar can be found in the
XFree86 CVS repository's "utils" module, and from our ftp site
.)

2.  Downloading the XFree86 4.5.0 binaries

We provide XFree86 4.5.0 binaries for a range of operating systems at our ftp
site  and our web site