Friday, 25 November 2011

How to install xorg on RedHatLinux?

How to install xorg on RedHatLinux?

I think I'm using RedHatLinux on a console. Is there any way to inquire into the console to know which version it is, or if it is redhatlinux? Anyway I'm trying to install some kind of GUI on top of it, it's in a dedi box, and I'm not quite getting it. I know I have to somehow install xorg, a window manager and vnc, but for now I'd like to learn how to install xorg.

All I know is I did wget of a page that had xorg. Yup, this one: f*p://f*p.ntua.gr/pub/X11/X.org/current/ I thought yay the docs.tar.bz2 must be it. The other files are just decoration. Alas no, was I to learn.

Then I did tar xjf docs.tar.bz2 in the console.

So now it's unpackaged but that doesn't mean anything. That probably just means it's what a windows user would call 'unrared'.

So what do I do now with these folders titled xorg-docs and xorg-server that are sitting in the root folder where the bz2 'package' is.

Perhaps that's not the way to install xorg?

So I read the readme.html file that comes with the xorg-docs folder and it didn't say anything about installing. Zilch. It just told me to go to the xorg wiki, which also said nothing. Maybe it was hidden in some mathematical formula somewhere. Alas no.

So I hit up google, and it came up with ht*p://w*w.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-install.html]Installing X11
and it said to do this:

# pkg_add -r xorg

So I said yay, finally something easy and simple. But alas no. It says -bash: pkg_add: command not found in that lovely console.

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