On Wed, 12 Jul 2000,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about,  Re: slippery slackware:

> > You should have startx in 3 differnt places,
> > pa3gcu:~$ whereis startx
> > startx: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx /usr/bin/X11/startx /usr/X11/bin/startx
> > and you should have xinit in the same manner.
> > pa3gcu:~$ whereis xinit
> > xinit: /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit /usr/bin/X11/xinit /usr/X11/bin/xinit
> > The files are the same size and same permissions in all dirs.
> >
> That is because they are all the same file, reachable by several paths
> through some symbolic links.  :-)

Yes agreed, thats why i asked "What was installed" and HOW it was installed.

> 
> xinit, xterm, startx are all in the xbin.tgz, along with the symbolic
> links to connect them to the PATH.  If you don't like pkgtool,
> installpkg will also work.

Quite.

-- 
Regards Richard
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/


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