Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:39:10 -0500 From: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> To: "Wills, Ken" <kwills@gflesch.com> Cc: Danny <danny@idx.com.au>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME installation problem --help Message-ID: <19991028093910.I23722@lovett.com> In-Reply-To: <058BE165CBA8D111A82E0008C79F9E3502488B@gfc-mad-dc.gflesch.int>; from kwills@gflesch.com on Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:48:06AM -0500 References: <058BE165CBA8D111A82E0008C79F9E3502488B@gfc-mad-dc.gflesch.int>
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On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:48:06AM -0500, Wills, Ken wrote: > > There's quite a bit do do... Well, yes and no :) Assuming a recent 3.3-STABLE and up-to-date ports tree: cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome; make all install should do everything. Grab a few (large) cups of coffee, though.. even with the distfiles already downloaded, and a fast machine, it takes "a while" to compile everything.. about an hour on my dual Xeon/400 (though it's doing other stuff in the background). > First check the webpages over a http://www.gnome.org about installation, > and the order you need to compile the sources in. I would strongly suggest > you try to use the ports to build this, as it builds all of the dependencies > for you. For GNOME (and, to a similar extent, KDE), I wouldn't even bother attempting to compile them from the basic sources, unless you like a whole lot of pain.. Let the awesome ports collection do it all for you :) > You probably need an upgraded ports collection to get the latest and > greatest from gnome. At least one from around October 20th or later. A whole bunch of patches etc. got committed around then to bring the ports collection GNOME up to "October GNOME (1.0.53)", which is certainly the most stable version to date. The handbook provides all the necessary information about maintaining an up to date ports tree via cvsup and other methods. -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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