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To: Gene Harris <zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com>,
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Cc: Danny <danny@idx.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: GNOME installation problem --help
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:26:46 -0500
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> From: Gene Harris [mailto:zeus@tetron03.tetronsoftware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 8:50 AM
> To: Wills, Ken
> Cc: Danny; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: RE: GNOME installation problem --help
> 
> 
> 
> You really need to use the ports collection for this.

Yes - I should have stressed 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.

I tried this once upon a time and got quite far into it. But it began 
to get _very_ frustrating _very_ quickly.

> >  > 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*
>

..small slip there revealing my true feelings about gnome so far. I did of
course mean to say - "That's quite a lot of dodo".
I'd say save your self the trouble and use blackbox instead 
(it's a _huge_ 150K download)
:)

Ken
 


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