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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Want X applications, but not an X server
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:05:51 -0700
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To: Justin Murdock <justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk>

Justin Murdock wrote:
> I don't want to run an X server, so I don't want any of the
> server stuff, but I want to compile and run X applications.
> 
> Soooo, what do I need.

You need the programmer's headers and libraries (they were listed as an
available distribution during the installation).  Run /stand/sysinstall
again, select Custom->Distributions->Custom->X
binaries->Back->Back->Extract.

-- 
  Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project