n00b needs GNOME 2.8 upgrade help

[Michael Johnson]

On Jan 16, 2005, at 8:56 PM, Jason Trickett wrote:


> Hi. I just installed FreeBSD 5.3 into a MS Virtual PC disk. I got
>  GNOME working and everything seems fine. I was reading about upgrading
>  to GNOME 2.8 but I'm kinda confused; I ran "pkg_add -r gnome2" but was
>  told I already had the latest, which is 2.6.2. So how do I get 2.8? I
>  do have some unix skills so I'm familiar with using the CL -- I just
>  found the manual really confusing. Hopefully someone can offer some
>  help.
>  Thanks in advance.

Check out http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq28.html