From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 15:13: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7251937B405; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:12:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78FD43E84; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/ - 15/04/02) with ESMTP id g6OMCICB084977; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:12:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6OMCHSx084976; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:12:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:12:17 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target? Message-ID: <20020725001217.B84349@abigail.blackend.org> References: <1027534025.3d3eecc9e656e@netmail.pipex.net> <5iQKrFB97uP9EwxH@caomhin.demon.co.uk> <1027536277.3d3ef59533fb0@netmail.pipex.net> <1027537417.3d3efa09e9316@netmail.pipex.net> <20020724212218.B83166@abigail.blackend.org> <1027539205.3d3f0105e49e5@netmail.pipex.net> <20020724222449.A84349@abigail.blackend.org> <1027547433.3d3f21293ff1f@netmail.pipex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1027547433.3d3f21293ff1f@netmail.pipex.net>; from sroberts@dsl.pipex.com on Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:50:33PM +0100 X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:50:33PM +0100, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com wrote: > > Hi Marc, > That did the trick for me, marc. Thanks very much for your time, as well as > the information. I should think that your suggestion of updating the Handbook > is an excellant idea! Great! I will update the Handbook soon. > > For a lot of us, this proves to be the first port of call for information and > help, and from my own experience, its at times disheartening to come across > procedures in there that turn out to be either out of date, or ambiguous in its > reading. > > I'm off installing gnome at the moment. I'm sure to come back to the list > seeking confirmation of the procedure for setting gnome as the default desktop > to load when entering "startx". For GNOME http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html will be your friend, and also http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ If you find something wrong or not clear, feel free to contact doc people on freebsd-doc mailing list :) Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message