Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 16:54:54 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Nils Holland <ncptiddische@compuserve.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Some newbie-questions Message-ID: <200001012154.QAA84630@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <200001011608_MC2-930A-3907@compuserve.com>
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On 01-Jan-00 Nils Holland wrote: > Hallo! > I've just downloaded and installed FreeBSD on my computer > (downloaded the ISO-image and burned it onto a CD). Since I've > been using Linux for a long time, it wasn't too hard for me to set up > FreeBSD and configure the network. > > The next thing I wanted to do was to set my beloved > AfterStep/Gnome-combination I've been using under Linux up on > FreeBSD. I've got all the GNOME tarballs, as well as the latest > stable AfterStep tarball. > > Under Linux, I used to make RPMs from the tarballs, then I used > the Red hat Package manager and installed the packages. Under > FreeBSD, stuff seems to work a little bit different. Let me give you > a dscribtion of what I've tried to do so far: > > In order to install AfterStep, I first figured out that it would be a > good idea to have libgif, libpng and libjpeg. (And zlib, since libpng > wants that one). So I downloaded these, unpacked them, and did > ./configure, make, make install. I also did an ldconfig (as I had > learned from Linux). Anyway, when I tried to compile AfterStep > afterwards, it said that it could find neither of these things I had just > installed. As a result of that, I could not install AfterStep. > > My guess is that I need to give additional agruments to ./configure > in order to tell it which directories to use for the installation. If so, > what excactly do I have to type? My second guess is that the > dynamic library loader is not set up properly, if so, what do I have > to do to fix that? > > Maybe someone can help me with this. To put it all in a short > sentence: How excactly do I install AfterStep and GNOME on a > bare-bones FreeBSD system? > > Any help is appreciated! Use the ports system, it makes your life a *LOT* easier. If you didn't install the ports system, you can do so from /stand/sysinstall -> configuration -> Distributions. Once you have the ports installed just do this: # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome # make all install ... this will download, compile, and install all of gnome for you, including any dependencies that it needs # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/afterstep-devel # make all install ... this will download, compile, and install afterstep for you, including any dependences that it needs That's it, just 2 'make' commands. To learn more about the Ports System, check out the Handbook. > Greetings, > Nils -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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