A few days ago I asked my dad to look into compiling and figuring out how to work with something that uses FUSE, MacPorts, and I guess requires X11 app for what he's doing (he told me he needed it for the task - and I believe him because I don't know).
By the way I'm talking about the X11 app, not the X11 Software Development Kit or SDK.
Well, when my dad upgraded to Mac OS X Tiger he didn't do the custom install to install the X11 app... Apple didn't automatically include it in the regular or basic install.
So yesterday my dad spent several hours re-installing the entire Tiger operating system again just so that he can get the X11 app on his computer...
Well, as it turns out when I upgraded the MacMini's hard drive and installed Tiger again I didn't do a custom install to get the X11 app on my computer.
Now here's the difference in approach to how I went about installing X11...
Instead of straight-away thinking that I had to re-install Mac OS X Tiger all over again using a custom install and checking off the X11 install, I first did a Google search to see if I can just install X11 on its own.
Good thing I did too... because you can install X11 on Tiger if you forgot before! I really didn't want to spend another good part of a day to install Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger again!!
All you have to do is insert the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger install DVD and use the "Optional Installs.mpkg" to install the X11 app by itself...
You have to go through the standard SLA's and destination drive stuff... then you can check off the various optional installs that you want to make... and in that list you can check off X11 and continue with the install to get the X11 app on your computer!
