From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 7 19:24:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF6E37BF3A for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:24:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.00) id A5B253D200F8; Wed, 07 Jun 2000 19:32:18 -0700 From: Chip Organization: homenet To: Roland Jesse , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFCE Window Manager Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:19:28 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <00060117263800.82982@chip.wiegand.org> <20000606151228.A24347@cichlids.cichlids.com> <0v4s76ga2o.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> In-Reply-To: <0v4s76ga2o.fsf@cs.uni-magdeburg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00060719260100.01095@chip.wiegand.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Roland Jesse wrote: > Alexander Langer writes: > > > > 3.4.0. It's not a package or port though, so I'm a little unsure > > > about installing it. Do I just 'tar xzvf' the file and restart XCFE? > > > > I suggest building it first. > > Well, there *are* binary tgz archives available at > . > > > Roland > I did download the one from www.xfce.org called xfce-3.4.0-freebsd.i386.bin.tar.gz which I then ran d/l'ed into /usr/ports/distfiles. I then ran tar xzvf xfce-etc.bin.tar.gz and saw on the screen all the files being extracted into the various directories, mostly /usr/loca/xfce/ So then I go to /usr/local and low and behold, there is no xfce directory. I do a search and the files that were extracted do not exist on my system anywhere, yet I saw them extract. Any idea what can cause this anomaly? (Is that the right word?) -- Chip Wiegand ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ visit Alternative Operating Systems www.wiegand.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message