Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:40:44 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Gnome and Xorg from installation DVD Message-ID: <4F39835C.2090604@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1329163260.2566.0.camel@arifLaptop> References: <1329163260.2566.0.camel@arifLaptop>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 13/02/2012 20:01, Arif Hossain wrote: > 1. I have got Installation dvd for freebsd 9.0. I've succesfully > installed it in vmware. Now i want to install the packages included in > the dvd. Somehow or the other sysinstall can not mount the dvd. So i > manually mounted it in /mnt and copied the /package folder into > my /root. Now what should i do to install a working gnome2 desktop? if i > give something like pkg_add -vn *, it reports several missing > dependencies. So how should i install it properly without downloading > anything? Set PKG_PATH in your environment. See pkg_add(1) for details. > > 2. I want to see codes for the base system. During installation i've > selected "source" to be installed. there are sources for "some" packages > in /usr/source but for some i see only Makefiles. How to get these other > sources? That's intentional. You can find the missing sources under /usr/src/contrib, /usr/src/crypto > 3. I alway use git and svn. and i'm not looking forward to learn cvs. I > want my "base" system source tree to be updated through svn. Now does > the sources included in dvd is tracked by svn or cvs? i mean to get the > latest development snapshot for the "base" system should i have to do > something more or i just can do "svn update"? Base system is svn now, although it's exported to cvs as well for backwards compatibility. http://wiki.freebsd.org/SubversionPrimer > 4. I'm a old linux user, this is infact my first bsd installation but > i'm loving the "way of bsd". Its a wonderful Yuo. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk85g2gACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzscACdEea7nH5L7WUV0fEY2OhzFia9 MdoAn2EUl9G3jjP+C+98OqouEVWHjE+w =br8F -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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