I want to upgrade Xfree from 4.3 to 4.4 so I downloaded the required patch, in xfree.org they told me that I need to install the patch on the directory containing the xc/ directory, but I just don'n know where it is I did locate xc but none of the results obtained was th xc directory, I know this is the dumbest question but I just don't where else to look. Also what should I do before applying the patch, if anything goes wrong how could I recover everything?

Being a newbie in linux is really annoying.




THX

That patch updates the source code for xfree from 4.3 to 4.4. You would have to do an install from source to use that patch.

xc is the directory that contains the *source code* for XFree86, you probably don't have it instlled.
There are binaries available, download this file and run it like so:
and it will tell you which package to get from here

Thanks guys, I downloaded the binaries from xfree.org, and I tried to install it but in some steps during installation it shows an error

/directory where the binaries are/xman.gz (for example) only read XXXX bytes;

/directory where the binaries are/extract error exiting now (I don't remember very well)

I thought it had something to do with the extract file so I checked If I was using the right version, but it was OK, so I downloaded it again, this time I got the .exe file, and tried again but it was the same thing.
When I rebooted it took like 20 min to start and everything was really really slow, so I deleted the X11R6 directory and copied the previous 4.3 directory

Any help with these errors ?
any comment would be really appreciated