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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 15:03:14 -0400
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To: arnab bhowmick <arnabbhowmick111@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: I need some solution
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On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 23:45:58 +0530
arnab bhowmick <arnabbhowmick111@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello guys i am new to Free BSD. recently I have installed free BSD 10.1
> release on my system. I am facing some problems. When I am starting my
> system and logging in it showing a black screen with some freebsd well come
> note and a sigil($) sign at the left of the screen and nothing else. No
> graphical interface. When I am using pkg install command to install
> something like mate-desktop/ GNOME desktop or some other program it fails
> to install the package. It is replying that ( pkg: failed to extract
> pkg-static : can't create '/user/local/sbin/pkg-static' ). What to do next?
> Please help me. I am very eager to use freebsd as I am like this system
> very much. Please give me some solution.

I recommend that you instead install PC-BSD. It's a version of
FreeBSD specially packaged to be easy for people new to BSD:
http://www.pcbsd.org/

You can get FreeBSD to behave the way you want, but it doesn't
do so out of the box. PC-BSD does.

-- 
Bill Moran