From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 18:20:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE20237B65F for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.com ([24.12.186.185]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001018011912.TLRZ26554.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:19:12 -0700 Message-ID: <39ECFAF3.1CC3BE28@home.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:20:51 -0700 From: Rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wolfgang Zeikat Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: updating software packages References: <39ECAFA4.DB4A0C19@webseek.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just did it the other night. Gnome 1.2 seems to be pretty unstable. Core dumps galore. And it takes longer to load than Windows 2000 takes to boot, seriously. Thats what I get for not reading the mailing list archives :) Rob. Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: > > after reading about installing gnome 1.2 on > http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/October/Features310.html > i wonder: > > can i somehow use /stand/sysinstall to install the ports of gnome > version 1.2 (more recent than the default 1.0.* that comes with FreeBSD > 4.0) from the ftp site? > > or how else would i select and install packages from the directory > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable/packages/gnome/ ? > > i would prefer some method that handles dependencies > > greetings > wolfgang > > -- > http://www.infoseek.de > Wolfgang Zeikat > Technik/Tech Department - System Administrator - > e-Mail: w.zeikat@webseek.de > > WSI Webseek Infoservice GmbH & Co. KG > Buero/Office: Herrengraben 3, D-20459 Hamburg > Post/Mail: Brieffach 8250, D-20350 Hamburg > Telefon/Phone: (00)49-(0)40-300-69-322 > Fax: (00)49-(0)40-300-69-199 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message