From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 11:38:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F89414EBB for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:38:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:37:46 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C2C@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Doug Young' , Marc Schneiders Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: KDE problems Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:40:15 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm sorry, but what relevance did any of your reply have to his problem? :P Anyway.. try using the ports. I never used the package before, so there may be some dependencies that are not being dealt with downloading the package and installing it that way. cd /usr/ports/x11/kde11 make install see what happens. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Young [SMTP:dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au] > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 7:44 PM > To: Marc Schneiders > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: KDE problems > > > >>| I didn't see the question but if it wasn't answered by someone more > >>| knowledgable yet you may need to re-phrase the question. > > >There was no reply whatsoever. I don't know any other relevant > information > >to add. Dmesg would be useless. > > Well I haven't a clue what "Dmesg" does anyway so you are obviously a way > ahead of me on that score. I get confused enough with the basic stuff so I > try to > only learn just the bare essentials of what I need to sort out the > immediate > issue. > that way I can absorb stuff in small enough doses so I don't get brain > overload. > > > >>| I've always > >>| had responses (although generally critical of Microsoft email clients) > >>| when posting questions from Outlook so I doubt thats an issue. > >>| > > >Have you? I am not so sure. As far as I can see newbie type questions are > >not answered on some BSD-lists at least. Maybe not the Free one. > > > I know a couple of the contributors hate newbies but thankfully most of > the > experts do at least try to help. We really should make a point of using > only > email clients that don't make them mad though ..... Outlook email does > look > a bit messy in unix .... I'll install Eudora this morning as it seems to > do > a bit > more acceptable presentation for people receiving in the likes of Pine > > >>I have had no problems either with Linux, or BSD for that matter before > >>this. > > > I really think BSD is better suited as a server installation than a > workstation anyway, > as it seems to do that job better than any linux, I probably won't use > linux > again personally > as I don't have time for the fanatic attitude of most of the faithful, and > the docs are utterly unintelligible ..... at least FreeBSD equivalents are > a > bit more readable even if most of them still go right over my head. I > guess > I can see I will be able to wade through the BSD stuff someday whereas I > don't see how anyone can get anyplace with linux MAN's & HOWTO's > > > >>I took the easy one, the FreeBSD package, kde-1.1.1. > >>Maybe I should have done it through the ports. Problem is that this > often > >>fails as not all ftp-sites from which ports get files support passive > ftp, > >>which I need. Which means being stuck half way with a lot of garbage > around > >>and nothing working. So I get the packages myself and install them and > then > >>when they fail over a missing dependency I get that or those, install > them > >>and then again the thing I wanted. Worked until now fine for me. But I > think > >>this is *not* the cause of my problems. > > > I might be missing something, but why not just go purchase a CD > distribution > .... thats > the only way I've been able to get installation to work without major > problems > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message