Installation Details for XFree86® 4.8.0 : Introduction
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## 1. Introduction

This document contains information about installing the XFree86 binaries provided by The XFree86 Project.

The XFree86 binaries that we provide for UNIX-like OS's (Linux, the BSDs, Solaris, etc) are packaged in a platform-independent gzipped tar format, aka "tarballs," identified by the `.tgz` suffix. Along with the binaries we provide a customized version of the GNU tar utility called "extract" and an installation script. We recommend that these be used to install the binaries. (The source for this customized version of GNU tar can be found in the XFree86 CVS repository's "utils" module, and from our ftp site.)

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