http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/macosx\/apple\/x11formacosx.html<\/a><\/p>\nwhich has a 43mb installer that at least for me errored out saying I had something newer installed. Then all READMEs say that if you have Tiger installed you need to install X11 from the Mac OSX installation disc.<\/p>\n
If you go to the disc and try to install from the Install Bundled Software Only <\/b>you are not going to find it.<\/p>\n
After wasting time, I found a the silver bullet on the disc:<\/p>\n
\/System\/Installation\/Packages\/X11User.pkg<\/font><\/b><\/p>\nThen after I installed, on the Root of the Disc I saw another Icon called "Optional Installs<\/b>", guess what? It was there also…<\/p>\n
Anyway, I hope you find this post if you're in the same trouble I didn't read anything on apple's site on how to get to it on the disc.<\/p>\n
Oh, and one cool thing you get by installing X11 -> xterm (yay!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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So first thing you do, is you google and you find this page: http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/macosx\/apple\/x11formacosx.html which has a 43mb installer that at least for me errored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,33,43,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeklife","category-gubatron","category-linux","category-mac-osx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-4B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3236,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/how-to-actually-build-bitcoin-on-mac-osx-10-9-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":285,"position":0},"title":"How to actually build bitcoin on Mac OSX 10.9.1","author":"gubatron","date":"February 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"First of all, if you have Macports, do yourself a favor and get rid of it. 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