From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 1 14:55: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (ric-35.freedomnet.com [198.240.105.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D4314F0A for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 14:55:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA76620; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 17:54:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200001012254.RAA76620@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 17:54:54 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Dan Busarow Subject: Re: Some newbie-questions Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , Nils Holland Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-Jan-00 Dan Busarow wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Nils Holland wrote: >> Maybe someone can help me with this. To put it all in a short >> sentence: How excactly do I install AfterStep and GNOME on a >> bare-bones FreeBSD system? > > Use the ports system. If you did'nt install ports during the > initial installation use /stand/sysinstall to do so now. Then > ># cd /usr/ports ># cd x11-wm ># cd afterstep Does the afterstep port support GNOME? From a simple grep I inferred that only the afterstep-devel port supported GNOME. ># make ># make install ># cd /usr/ports ># cd x11 ># cd gnome ># make ># make install > > The ports system should grab any missing dependencies like libz > for you automatically. > > If you change permissions on /usr/ports/distfiles so that you can > write to it you'll only need root for the make install instead of > the whole process as I've shown. Recommended :) > > Dan -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message