10.3: Repair X11 after an archive and install

Oct 28, '03 07:51:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

A short hint for those who were using Apple's X11 Beta before installing the Panther X11 version, but now find their X11 installation somehow broken.

If you choose the "Archive and Install" method to upgrade your Jaguar system, and select X11 at the same time, the Installer _will_ archive and upgrade the X11R6 folder within /usr, but _will_not_ archive and install the X11.app within /Applications.

You'll see this to be true if, after your install, the X11.app is _still_ in /Applications instead of /Applications -> Utilities, which is it's new location.

Simple fix: Remove the /Applications/X11.app program yourself, and run the X11 installer from Disk 3 of the Panther install CDs.

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