Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)
I am having problems installing Gnome GUI, I have Xorg working, and I have 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 is open to me. I have tried copying all the packages across from FreeBSD 6 cd 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 to this, something like a windows clone Gnome or KDE may be good, but I'm just 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Enigma wrote: I am having problems installing Gnome GUI, I have Xorg working, and I have 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 is open to me. I have tried copying all the packages across from FreeBSD 6 cd 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? You should try a smaller GUI - especially if aou are running an older system - let's say 300 MHz and 128 MB RAM - neither gnome nor KDE will be much fun then. WindowMaker might be a nice alternative. 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 to this, something like a windows clone Gnome or KDE may be good, but I'm just as willing to have to learn to use a good GUI that isnt windows clone. Good Luck, Uli. Thankyou. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * * ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)
Enigma wrote: 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 is open to me. You have to know that the gnome2 package is a metapackage. It installs many optional GNOME packages you probably never need. You can use the gnome2-lite Package (pkg_add -r gnome2-lite), to install just the necessary packages to run GNOME. HTH! Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)
So far I've had success running fluxbox on my old dell laptop with a 600mhz CPU and 128mb of RAM. pkg_add -r fluxbox It has a nice menu generator that will pick up most installed programs and make them available to you through its menus. I usualy have enough memory left to run konsole with a few shells, gedit and opera with minimal swapping. On 4/19/06, Frank Steinborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enigma wrote: 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 is open to me. You have to know that the gnome2 package is a metapackage. It installs many optional GNOME packages you probably never need. You can use the gnome2-lite Package (pkg_add -r gnome2-lite), to install just the necessary packages to run GNOME. HTH! Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Enigma thusly... Please wrap your lines around 70 characters or so, instead of writing one-line paragraphs. 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 to this, something like a windows clone Gnome or KDE may be good, but I'm just as willing to have to learn to use a good GUI that isnt windows clone. Try x11-themes/fvwm-themes, which will install x11-wm/fvwm2-devel as a dependency. Put fvwm-themes-start in your ~/.xinitrc, then run startx. On the resulting screen, if you left click the empty area, called root window (or desktop if you prefer), a menu will pop up which will have Theme Configuration or some such title. From there, you can choose Redmond 98 or Redmond XP themes for button-shapes, start menu, taskbar other thingumadoodles. You may need to do adjustments to your theme as you may or may not have all the programs installed (or even care about) which are listed in the menus and|or displayed as buttons. - Parv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Gnome (Or possibly other GUI)
Although I personally feel the best way to begin learning FreeBSD (or really 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems installing Gnome GUI, I have Xorg working, and I have 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 is open to me. I have tried copying all the packages across from FreeBSD 6 cd 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 to this, something like a windows clone Gnome or KDE may be good, but I'm just 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
