From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 20:28:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (stjohn.stjohn.ac.th [202.21.144.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 396AE37B424 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from granite.impoffice.ac.th ([203.151.134.100]) by stjohn.stjohn.ac.th (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA19413; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:23:55 +0700 (GMT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000818103130.00891210@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> X-Sender: mcrogerm@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:31:30 +0700 To: "Andresen,Jason R." From: Roger Merritt Subject: Re: Gnome 1.2 on FreeBSD? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <399BEB55.7631BE6E@mitre.org> References: <20000817123853.14134.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:40 AM 8/17/00 -0400, you wrote: >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 > I'm interested in this but just beginning to look into it. How much disk space am I going to need to install GNOME? My resources are a bit limited (I'd rather not have to use more than 500MB). -- Roger The best part about growing old is it takes such a long time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message