Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:26:27 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> Cc: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: GNOME Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208121025550.11439-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <3D56A7B1.A04BAF85@charter.net>
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Parker Brown wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 11:06:41 -0700 > From: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> > To: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: GNOME > > Tried to install gnome using pkg_add sometime yesterday. pkg-add > couldn't find it (please see attachment "gnome.prob"). > > Then began a real nightmare --- I tried to install it from the ports > section. After just over three hours, the installation had gobbled up > some 280 Mb of disk space, so I stopped it, cleaned up what I could, and > went to bed. This morning I restarted it (only about 260 Mb available > this time). After just about precisely three hours the installation > aborted because it was "out of disk space." (please see attachment > "ROCKSOLIDDISKMANAGEMENT"). > > Installation requires more that six (6) hours and more that 500 Mb of > disk space? I've got a very fast cable connection, a Pentium II with > 192 Mb RAM, and a SCSI drive. > > Needless to say, I'll forget about gnome. But how about putting a > warning statement in /usr/ports/x11/gnome/pkg_comment in the future. > Really. > > Pb > Instead of building it from source, why not just install the packages from your CD, pre-built? /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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