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Date:      Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:48:52 -0500
From:      Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>
To:        Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
Cc:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, dalescott@shaw.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why is FreeBSD+GNOME not working on my Pentium laptop ?
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Manish Jain writes:

> I installed bash and the xorg meta-port from sources and then gnome3 via 
> 'pkg install gnome3'. Logically, all dependencies should have been met. 

Install from packages, or install from the ports tree. Don't mix the
two. The ports tree is updated more frequently than the package
repository, so mis-matched dependencies are a possibility when slightly
older packages from the repository are installed alongside more recent
ones from the ports tree.

That may not be the source of your problem, but you can at least
eliminate a variable or two by staying consistent with where you get
your software.

-- 

::  Brandon J. Wandersee
::  brandon.wandersee@gmail.com
::  --------------------------------------------------
::  'The best design is as little design as possible.'
::  --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------



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