From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 6:49:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9E314D17 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:49:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (tetron03.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.108]) by tetron03.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA02736; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:50:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:50:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Gene Harris To: "Wills, Ken" Cc: Danny , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: GNOME installation problem --help In-Reply-To: <058BE165CBA8D111A82E0008C79F9E3502488B@gfc-mad-dc.gflesch.int> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You really need to use the ports collection for this. I was inspecting the patches for gnome (and its dependencies) and they are quite extensive. I could never get the original sources to compile correctly. As a project to learn more about FreeBSD, I started duplicating the port patches, but some of them are not obvious to a newbie at BSD and X11 programming. Gene > > Subject: GNOME installation problem --help > > > > > > Currently, > > > > Runniing Freebsd 227 > > Want to install GNOME > > Behind a firewall so port 21 is not available > > Have an attachment with the listing on files > > > > Question:- > > > > Which file should I compile and what commands do I type in ?? > > > > There's quite a bit do do... > No kidding! About a million at last count. *grin* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message