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:

• The X11R6.8 source is contained in the files:

  X11R6.8.0-src1.tar.gz
X11R6.8.0-src2.tar.gz
X11R6.8.0-src3.tar.gz
X11R6.8.0-src4.tar.gz
X11R6.8.0-src5.tar.gz
X11R6.8.0-src6.tar.gz
X11R6.8.0-src7.tar.gz


  These can be found at ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/xorg/X11R6.8/src/ or http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8/src/ and similar locations on X.org mirror sites. X11R6.8.0-src4.tgz and X11R6.8.0-src5.tar.gz contains the fonts. X11R6.8.0-src6.tar.gz contains the documentation source. X11R6.8.0-src7.tar.gz contains the hardcopy documentation. X11R6.8.0-src1.tar.gz, X11R6.8.0-src2.tar.gz and X11R6.8.0-src3.tar.gz contains everything else. If you don't need the docs or fonts you can get by with only X11R6.8.0-src1.tar.gz, X11R6.8.0-src2.tar.gz and X11R6.8.0-src3.tar.gz.
• Extract each of these files by running the following from a directory on a filesystem containing enough space (the full source requires around 305MB, and a similar amount is required in addition to this for the compiled binaries):

  gzip -d < X11R6.8.0-src1.tar.gz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < X11R6.8.0-src2.tar.gz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < X11R6.8.0-src3.tar.gz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < X11R6.8.0-src4.tar.gz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < X11R6.8.0-src5.tar.gz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < X11R6.8.0-src6.tar.gz | tar vxf -
gzip -d < X11R6.8.0-src7.tar.gz | tar vxf -


All methods will produce one main source directory called xc.