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Software requirements

In order to use XFree86-2.0, you will need to be running kernel version 0.99.pl12 or higher. You will also need to have version 4.4.1 or newer of the libraries installed. Also required is ld.so version 1.3 or newer. ld.so is a shared dynamic linker for runtime used by newer versions of the libraries. See Chapter 4 for information on upgrading the kernel and libraries.

XFree86-2.0 requires at least 17 megabytes of free disk space, 21 megabytes if you install the server link kit. You may of course trim this figure down considerably by not installing many of the ``optional'' packages available with XFree86, such as man pages.


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