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Installing X11 on Tiger

Wed, 14 Feb 2007

My new MacBook Pro didn't come with X11 pre-installed (it's probably not widely used), but I had a nearly impossible time trying to find out where X11 comes from.

There's a copy on Apple's website for Panther (10.3.x), but nothing for 10.4.x for download. The forums suggest that the package is found on the install DVDs, but I couldn't find it anywhere as a separate install (the archives seemed to indicate that you had to do a full installation again to get it, or at least a reboot, etc., which I wasn't willing to do).

I found this message:

<lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2006/Jun/msg00013.html>

which says:

It works.