From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 19 23:52:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BBCA16A400 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:52:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: from pproxy.gmail.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEE743D46 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:52:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t32so17709pyc for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:52:25 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=sp7bJ+F8nfrNOteVGvKKeUCMCFbrK29YyiuNbU2/8+8qonrvGvqJxBCAQW4PbKcL2rQIAcla6qBgcE/EZt0YqlNLTfyziYKNMtPnD/MIXjSRXGd627yhHkuICMfug95TLUBCJGUxvlAc5dRW/hGC59ezZAHGwKgSXLjOLElFxBo= Received: by 10.35.103.12 with SMTP id f12mr84204pym; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.15.17 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:10:58 -0400 From: "David Stanford" To: Enigma In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:52:27 -0000 Although I personally feel the best way to begin learning FreeBSD (or reall= y any *nix) is to avoid GUI's altogether (at least at first), you may want to give a look into PC-BSD: http://www.pcbsd.org. This comes with KDE preinstalled and will give you a useable desktop system right off the bat, and also provides Konsole so you can work on the command line. -David On 4/19/06, Enigma wrote: > > I am having problems installing Gnome GUI, I have Xorg working, and I hav= e > read many install instructions to get the Gnome GUI up and running. 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 i= s > open to me. I have tried copying all the packages across from FreeBSD 6 c= d 2 > across to my hdd but the 'make' command doesnt work, which im guessing is > due to the fact there is no .tar.gz file to build from? > > My question is, how can I install this GUI, or will it be easier to > install an alternative with less graphics and tag along programs? > I'm essentially getting a GUI going due to the fact I'm new to Unix as a > whole and would be good to assist learning of the OS and the shell. Due t= o > this, something like a windows clone Gnome or KDE may be good, but I'm ju= st > as willing to have to learn to use a good GUI that isnt windows clone. > > Thankyou. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >