Old installation descriptions

I have copied all my old installation description to this page for possible future use.

cygwin/XFree86 4.0.3 Installation (010426)

This is the old installation procedure that I followed se above for the new one. This procedure followed the one outlined in cygwin/XFree86 installation page.

I installed the following files from the set of files downloaded from the Swiss-server.

etc-x11-vtwm.tar                         mkfontdir.tar
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.0.3.tar	         XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3.tar
XFree86-CID-fonts.tar		         XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.0.3.tar
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.0.3.tar
XFree86-ISO8859-7-1-fonts.tar	         XFree86-ISO8859-7-100dpi-fonts.tar
XFree86-ISO8859-7-75dpi-fonts.tar        XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts.tar
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts.tar        XFree86-ISO8859-fonts.tar
XFree86-KOI8-R-100dpi-fonts.tar	         XFree86-KOI8-R-75dpi-fonts.tar
XFree86-KOI8-R-fonts.tar	         XFree86-PEX-fonts.tar
XFree86-Speedo-fonts.tar	         XFree86-Type1-fonts.tar
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.0.3.tar         XFree86-encodings-fonts.tar
XFree86-japanese-fonts.tar	         XFree86-local-fonts.tar
XFree86-misc-fonts.tar		         XFree86-util-fonts.tar
xfree86-4.0.3-DLLs.tar		         xfree86-4.0.3-XClients.tar
xfree86-4.0.3-XWin.tar		         xfree86-4.0.3-Xterm.tar
xfree86-4.0.3-devel.tar		         xfree86-4.0.3-twm.tar
xfree86-4.0.3-Xmh.tar    	         xfree86-4.0.3-Xnest.tar
xfree86-4.0.3-Xprt.tar    	         xfree86-4.0.3-Xvfb.tar

Minor differences: 1) in the installation notes at cygwin the fonts come as one file but here they were delivered in separate files. 2) The directory structure for vtwm was hard coded into the distribution files and I have installed my cygwin in a non standard place so that I had to unzip the file from another location. Se the next section for my installation of vtwm.
I installed all files using the following command sequence:

cd /"name of the source directory"/
mkdir noinstall
mv vtwm-5.4.5a.tar.bz2 noinstall
bunzip2 mkfontdir.tar.bz2
bunzip2 XFree*
bunzip2 xfree86*
bunzip2 xfree86*
cd /
find /"name of source directory"/ -name '*.tar' -exec tar -xvf \{} \;

After the installation I added the following lines to my .bashrc file.

PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
export PATH

vtwm

The distribution had the wrong relative path for the root directory so I had to change directory to the "windows" directory where I have installed cygwin D:\Programs\cygwin. My installation commands were as follows.

cd /cygdrive/d/Programs/
bunzip2 /xf86/etc-x11-vtwm.tar.bz2
tar -xvf /xf86/etc-x11-vtwm.tar

I did not install the following file since it contains the source distribution of vtwm which I do not currently intend to use.

vtwm-5.4.5a.tar.bz2

Start up of X

To start X and the window manager I made two different shell scripts, one mystartx

#!/bin/bash
XWin -screen 0 1280x1024x32 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine 4&
rxvt -fn "Lucida Console-12" -e bash &

And one myxwin for starting the windowmanager.

#!/bin/bash
xhost +&
xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg yellow -bg black -e /usr/bin/bash &
vtwm &

I have not yet installed the correct keyboard which is very annoying, nor any background colors for the X-windows.

xfig 3.2.2 cygwin-b20.1

I downloaded the sofware following the link from the following page that describes the fig format and some of the applications that can read and write the format. After my installation I learned that there is an installation guide for an older version of xfig, it might be informative.
The binary installation of xfig v 3.2.2 for the cygwin release also includes transfig which is very convenient. The installation of the binary distribution was quite simple I just unzipped and untared it. There was one small problem occured and that was that the binary distribution was installed in another directory X11R6.4 so thats why I tared the files once again and removed the X11R6.4 directory and untared everything in the X11R6 directory.

cd /
gunzip /cygdrive/d/eriksson/Cygwin/xfig/xfig-3.2.2-cygwin-b20.1-bin.tar.gz
tar -xvf /cygdrive/d/eriksson/Cygwin/xfig/xfig-3.2.2-cygwin-b20.1-bin.tar
cd /usr/X11R6.4/
tar -cvf ../xfig.tar .
cd ..
rm -R X11R6.4
cd X11R6
tar -xvf ../xfig.tar

Lars Eriksson

Last modified: Fri Jul 20 15:37:53 W. Europe Daylight Time 2001