Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:31:30 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome 1.2 on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000818103130.00891210@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <399BEB55.7631BE6E@mitre.org> References: <20000817123853.14134.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 09:40 AM 8/17/00 -0400, you wrote: >Paul Jansen wrote: >> >> I have just installed Xfree 4.0.1 on my FreeBSD 4.0 >> system. I want to install a nice Window Manager, and >> I thought I'd have a look at Gnome. I was just >> reading the 'requires' part in the ports collection >> and it looks like I have to install like 42 or so >> other packages before I can get gnome to work. Is >> this true, or can I leave some out? Is there a script >> that I can run that will install the lot including all >> the dependencies? > >Good news for you: the 'requires' parts in the ports field are >ports-builder internal information, you don't have to worry about them. >Just cd to the gnome ports directory type make and it will take care of >installing all of those dependancies itself. > >Also, because it installs everything under the sun, Gnome is a good >starting application. You can run it overnight and have a relativly >package complete system by morning. The GIMP is another good port for >this. > >-- > _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ > / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org > / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those >/_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > I'm interested in this but just beginning to look into it. How much disk space am I going to need to install GNOME? My resources are a bit limited (I'd rather not have to use more than 500MB). -- Roger The best part about growing old is it takes such a long time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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