"Ian P. Thomas" wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:18:57AM -0800, Abbaasi Hasan wrote: > > > > --- Ted Spradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Abbaasi Hasan wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > i am using FreeBSD 4.4. > > > > i have trouble running X. [...] > Did you install the ports?
Umm, I don't think we want to tell this guy to build KDE from ports. Aside from the time, there's just too many snakes hiding in those woods. FreeBSD has the package collection, 6000 pre-configured and pre-built application binaries. Abbaasi, before you start worrying about KDE, first get your base system configured, then get XFree86 configured to your liking, then download the KDE *packages* and pkg_add to install them. > Check and see if you have a /usr/ports > directory filled with all kinds of stuff. If you don't, then ftp to > ftp.freebsd.org and pull down the latest tar ball. Check out the handbook > at www.freebsd.org, or use the one on your system with lynx, if you have it > installed. Its a text only browser. > Once you have the ports installed, you can go into the kde > directory and as root, > > make > make install > make clean > make clean-depends > > Make sure you're online when you do this. Go read War and Peace, and > by the time you're through, KDE should be built ;) > > Ian > -- > Of Course It Runs On NetBSD > www.netbsd.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
