From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 18:51:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.129.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D340737BB5C for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923AB6E3E30 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA21889 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:38:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07177 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:36:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZFV8500.L2C; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:38:29 -0400 Message-ID: <399BEB55.7631BE6E@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:40:38 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jansen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome 1.2 on FreeBSD? References: <20000817123853.14134.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Jansen wrote: > > I have just installed Xfree 4.0.1 on my FreeBSD 4.0 > system. I want to install a nice Window Manager, and > I thought I'd have a look at Gnome. I was just > reading the 'requires' part in the ports collection > and it looks like I have to install like 42 or so > other packages before I can get gnome to work. Is > this true, or can I leave some out? Is there a script > that I can run that will install the lot including all > the dependencies? Good news for you: the 'requires' parts in the ports field are ports-builder internal information, you don't have to worry about them. Just cd to the gnome ports directory type make and it will take care of installing all of those dependancies itself. Also, because it installs everything under the sun, Gnome is a good starting application. You can run it overnight and have a relativly package complete system by morning. The GIMP is another good port for this. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message