Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sgi!donl@glass.wpd.sgi.com From: donl@glass.wpd.sgi.com (donl mathis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: X11 and 3.1G Message-ID: <40113@sgi.SGI.COM> Date: 12 Aug 89 05:08:57 GMT References: <8908111848.AA11107@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 36 In article , elkins@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Elkins) writes: > > We just received 3.1G, and after performing an automatic installation, now > > ... > > You have to go back and use manual installation, list > available subsystems, and you will notice that the X11R3 Execution > Environment software and man pages have not been installed. It seems > that you must manually select them for installation. > > George Elkins This is true. The installation tool uses the online installation history to determine default subsystem selections. If an older version of the subsystem was installed, you get the new one by default. If you an older version could be installed but isn't, you don't get the new one by default. If there is no record of the subsystem one way or the other, such as the new X11 subsystem, you get the "builtin" default. Maintenance tapes were originally intended to be simple overlays of a reasonable subset of the other products, the assumption being that we would use them to provide a few new files. The builtin default is always "no", so that if an older subsystem is not already installed, you don't get the new one by default. Unfortunately, the X subsystems in 3.1G are new, and *can't* be already installed, so they never get installed by default. We have slightly abused the maintenance mechanism in 3.1G by introducing new subsystems, the result being that algorithm can't quite keep up. It will be fixed. In the mean time, the Subsystem Selection menu in Manual can be used to poke through the list of subsystems and make sure you're getting everything you want. -- - donl mathis at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA donl@sgi.com