Installing X11 On OS X 10.4.8 Tiger
Solution:
Install X11 from your OS X install disc. The downloads from the Apple site DO NOT WORK.
If you don’t have your disc try this link for download locations of X11 that work.
I wanted to install X11 to run Eagle (a PCB layout editor) but in the past I have seen that X11 needs to be installed to run Open Office.
According to Apple:
“X11 for Mac OS X is compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X”
From http://developer.apple.com/opensource/tools/X11.html
Hmm.. Is it now?
X11 is not installed by default with OS X although you can select to do this. Searching the Apple download site for ‘X11′ links through to this page. The install from this location DOES NOT WORK and always tells you there is a more recent version installed (which in my case there is clearly not). The 1.3 update here does the same .
To get around this luckily you can install X11 from your OS X install disc. Open the disc, scroll down and run the Optional Installs package, choosing to install only X11. I read here that installing the X11 SDK installs additional libraries so I installed this too by running X11SDK.pkg located in XCode Tools/Packages. After this to run X11 in Terminal you can type
open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app
Then launch what ever X11 application you are using. This worked fine for me!
The fact Apple has not picked up on this or rectified the problem reflects on their sustained lack of development of existing bugs and problems with their OS in favour of adding whistles and bells. And that’s why Open Source will win the day.
And the reason you have not upgraded your OS to 10.4.11 is….?
I hadn’t updated when I wrote this due to a fresh install of 10.4.8 but regardless the problems with the downloads from the Apple site are persistant.
The current X11 version on Mac OSX 10.5 has a glitch that does not allow Wireshark (a network traffic analysis app) to work normally.
Several corrected X11 packages for 10.5 that run Wireshark normally are out there, for example: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/X11-2.1.1.pkg
A link to the webpage describing the issue with X11 on Mac OS 10.5:
http://www.finkconsulting.com/page7.php
(No, I am not employed by them, and yes, it is a open source).
Thanks for that information. I don’t run 10.5 (too many features I don’t need or want and not enough that I do) but I hope this will be of use to someone, and great that it’s Open Source. Apple need to start taking notes.
On a related subject, I was checking out Wireshark running on Ubuntu 7.10 the other day and using it it is pretty easy to intercept the relevant URLs of video sharing sites, and thus remove all those annoying ads and flash containers that limit you from watching things full screen. Plus it’s direct, so by definition a bit faster. WAAAYYYY!!!
Keep checking http://www.rebuildtherobots.com and hopefully Jay will make some kind of application that utilizes this and makes it easier to get all the episodes you want. RSS Feeds & Wireshark = Automated whole season downloads?
wget | wireshark -i | grep “HTTP./” | grep “./.flv”
OOh yes