Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 14:38:37 -0700 From: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> Cc: BSDQuestions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: GNOME Message-ID: <3D597C5D.8564DD25@charter.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208121025550.11439-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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Actually, I did that when I reinstalled 4.6 yesterday. Please help me here, as I'm having problems understanding. GNOME seems to be installed, but I can't find it. pkg_info says it's installed, but pkg_info -L hasn't a clue where or what it is. Trying to run make in the ports packages predictably says it's already installed, but even a successful make deinstall and make reinstall leaves me with "so what's new?" On a hunch, I tried running gdm, but as user it says "only root wants to run gdm." and as root it says it can't find a group or something like that. Can editing something get me around this? Pb John Bleichert wrote: > 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 > */ -- Pb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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