Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:10:58 -0400 From: "David Stanford" <dthomas53@gmail.com> To: Enigma <thaenigma03@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI) Message-ID: <f2c91f770604191510i344a4524o371aaf284fbb0a62@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY102-DAV450C05EB7EE3C4C87DD7AB8C50@phx.gbl> References: <BAY102-DAV450C05EB7EE3C4C87DD7AB8C50@phx.gbl>
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Although I personally feel the best way to begin learning FreeBSD (or reall= y any *nix) is to avoid GUI's altogether (at least at first), you may want to give a look into PC-BSD: http://www.pcbsd.org. This comes with KDE preinstalled and will give you a useable desktop system right off the bat, and also provides Konsole so you can work on the command line. -David On 4/19/06, Enigma <thaenigma03@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I am having problems installing Gnome GUI, I have Xorg working, and I hav= e > read many install instructions to get the Gnome GUI up and running. My > problem is this: I am installing onto a small partition (roughly 2.5 gig) > with the add_pkg -r gnome2 command to download the packets. By about what > seems 3/4 the way through, my hdd is full and theres no way this option i= s > open to me. I have tried copying all the packages across from FreeBSD 6 c= d 2 > across to my hdd but the 'make' command doesnt work, which im guessing is > due to the fact there is no .tar.gz file to build from? > > My question is, how can I install this GUI, or will it be easier to > install an alternative with less graphics and tag along programs? > I'm essentially getting a GUI going due to the fact I'm new to Unix as a > whole and would be good to assist learning of the OS and the shell. Due t= o > this, something like a windows clone Gnome or KDE may be good, but I'm ju= st > as willing to have to learn to use a good GUI that isnt windows clone. > > Thankyou. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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