X11 post install

[beezle]

Hello, I installed iDeneb 1.4 (osx 10.5.6) on my Acer Aspire M1100. Everything works properly but when I installed, I did not choose to install X11. I now need X11 for Gimp to run properly. How can I install X11 without having to reinstall the whole OS? When I insert the cd it only gives me the option to reinstall OS X it does not give the option to add additional programs. Thank you in advance.

[TheRealPorkchop]

Pop the disk back in there and restart the computer. Let it load up like you are going to install from scratch. Don't go into the disk utility and go straight to the customize part. If at the very top of the list you have the option to uncheck the actual OSX install, then uncheck that, I don't know if that version/distro gives you that option or not. I know some of the others will, they call it "essentials" or something like that, seems like one of my iDeneb distros list it that way.

 

If you can uncheck that, then you will be able to go back through all the fixes, kext, bootloaders, etc., and install the X11 by itself. This would be a good time to install any other programs that you might have skipped or missed like the OSx86Tools or KextHelper if you missed those.

 

You tell it you're finished and in about 1 minute or less it'll say it was successful and restart. And there you go, you now have X11 installed on your machine.

 

If that isn't an option because you can't uncheck the actual OSX install, then put the disk in there and navigate through it and find the installer package for X11. I've not personally had much luck trying to install kext and bootloaders this way but it might work for X11 though, give it a try. I haven't personally tried what you're needing to do because on all my installs I pretty much check all the extra software or whatever even the stuff I had no idea what it was.

[beezle]

Thank you that worked flawlessly, come to find out all I had to do though was install xquartz as it has a newer version of X11 with it.