From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 10:13:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53E31065675 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:13:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhfoo-ml@extracktor.com) Received: from mail.nexlabs.com (mail.nexlabs.com [210.193.32.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DA3F8FC16 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 26627 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2010 10:13:01 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on frostbite.nexlabs.local X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-31.8 required=8.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,SC_HAM shortcircuit=ham autolearn=disabled version=3.2.5 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.214?) (jhfoo@nexlabs.com@202.128.216.130) by mail.nexlabs.com with SMTP; 4 Oct 2010 10:13:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4CA9A8AA.4070003@extracktor.com> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:12:58 +0800 From: Foo JH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4CA8756E.70406@extracktor.com> <20101003130641.GA89095@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20101003130641.GA89095@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: simplest way to get gnome/ kde up and running 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: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:13:02 -0000 > Have you actually installed KDE and/or Gnome? I don't see that step > included in what you say you have done. > If you have not you will of course need to do that before you can > configure either of them. > For Gnome you will probably want the x11/gnome2 port/package while for > KDE you will probably want either x11/kde3 or x11/kde4 (depending on if > you want KDE 3.x or KDE 4.x) I install Gnome via the DVD package. I believe it's gnome-desktop-... (sorry, need to be back home to get the actual package name). I tried to find gnome2 in the dvd package list (not the ports), but it's not listed there. Would it come under another name? > > > >