Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:13:19 +0200 From: Frank Steinborn <frank@ircnow.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI) Message-ID: <20060419141319.GA8933@scott.blazing.de> In-Reply-To: <BAY102-DAV450C05EB7EE3C4C87DD7AB8C50@phx.gbl> References: <BAY102-DAV450C05EB7EE3C4C87DD7AB8C50@phx.gbl>
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Enigma wrote: > My problem is this: I am installing onto a small partition (roughly > 2.5 gig) with the add_pkg -r gnome2 command to download the packets. By > about what seems 3/4 the way through, my hdd is full and theres no way > this option is open to me. You have to know that the gnome2 package is a "metapackage". It installs many optional GNOME packages you probably never need. You can use the gnome2-lite Package (pkg_add -r gnome2-lite), to install just the necessary packages to run GNOME. HTH! Frank
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