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1. How to get the X11R6.8 distribution source

One way of getting the X11R6.8 source is to obtain it directly from the X.Org CVS repository. There are several ways of doing that, and they are described in the CVS section of our wiki The CVS tag for this release is "XORG-6_8_0". The tag for the maintenance branch for this release is "XORG-6_8-branch".

Another method of getting the X11R6.8 source is to either download the 6.8.0 source tarballs sites from freedesktop.org using either ftp or http. The procedure for this is as follows:

All methods will produce one main source directory called xc.


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