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## 1. Introduction

This document contains information about installing the XFree86 binaries as provided by The XFree86 Project.

The XFree86 binaries that we provide for UNIX-like OS's (Linux, the BSDs, Solaris, etc) are packaged in a platform-independent gzipped tar format (aka "tarballs" identified by the `.tgz` suffix). Along with the binaries we provide a customized version of the GNU tar utility called "extract" and an installation script. We recommend that these be used to install the binaries.

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