Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 23:15:02 -0600 From: "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu> To: "Dinesh Nadarajah" <n_dinesh@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD-Gnome2 Installation Message-ID: <OE6QYYAr27kicP3lh9u00001358@hotmail.com>
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[Sorry, I read this on the web, so no quoting of the original message] Hi Dinesh, These are the steps I'd take: 1. Install FreeBSD from the CD. Make sure and install the ports collection, and also the cvsup package and a shell you like (ie Bash2) 2. Look in /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup for ports-supfile. Use this with your cvsup to upgrade the ports tree. 3. Go to /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade. Type: make install clean. This will install the portupgrade utilities which are very useful for later. 4. Read: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/11/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html for how to use portupgrade (actually can do this later) 5. Install XFree86 by going to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and typing: make install clean. Make sure that this installs correctly, but mine did when I did it today. Then adjust your XF86config file for your hardware, and get XFree86 working when you type: startx 6. Start the Gnome2 install by: portupgrade -N gnome2. Mine failed on the textproc/scrollkeeper port today. I fixed it by cd'ing to /usr/ports/textproc/docbook and typing: make install clean. I also installed the docbook-xml port the same way. After, I restarted the portupgrade -N gnome2, and it finished without incident. 7. I don't use gdm, so I can't help you there, but this is probably where you'd do that, I would think by changing the /etc/ttys file (change ttyv8) That should get you started. Every time you cvsup your ports, you should run portsdb -Uu. Then, you can use portversion to see which installed ports are out of date. You can upgrade with: portupgrade <portname>, or portupgrade -Rr <portname> to rebuild all the ports upward and downward recursive that need rebuilding. Hope that helps, Seth Hieronymus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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