Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 16:07:59 -0500 From: Nils Holland <ncptiddische@compuserve.com> To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Some newbie-questions Message-ID: <200001011608_MC2-930A-3907@compuserve.com>
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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! Greetings, Nils ------------------------------------------------------------------ How can you bury the skull of your country? How can you bury a nation of fear? Where're you gonna hide your love through the long years of dying? Gimme a tombstone and a wreath of all your tears! (Jim Steinman) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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