From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 21:54:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756BD14C20 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:54:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@idx.com.au) Received: from psych (idxwc05-254.idx.com.au [203.166.0.254]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA15085; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:06:00 +1000 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19991029145503.00689188@pop.idx.com.au> X-Sender: danny@pop.idx.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 14:55:12 +1000 To: "Wills, Ken" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Danny Subject: RE: GNOME installation problem --help Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello again, Basically, I should goto /freebsd/ports/packages/gnome/ -- get it on mfreebsd Without the need to copy all the distfiles ? At 07:48 28/10/99 -0500, Wills, Ken wrote: >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Danny >> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 6:50 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> 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... > >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. You can either fetch the files manually and put them in >/usr/ports/distfiles, >or use a http/ftp proxy to have the ports fetch the required files for you >(man fetch >for info on how to do this). > >You probably need an upgraded ports collection to get the latest and >greatest from gnome. > >Ken > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message