Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 21:12:41 +0200 From: "Marc Schneiders" <marc@oldserver.demon.nl> To: "Christopher Michaels" <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>, "'Doug Young'" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: KDE problems Message-ID: <043801bef964$f5076160$0300000a@oldserver.demon.nl> References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105C2C@site2s1>
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Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> wrote: | 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. It works :-) But one likes to understand ... Marc | > 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
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