KDE INSALL
Derrick MacPherson
dmacpherson at mainframe.ca
Tue May 17 11:41:11 PDT 2005
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 14:38 -0400, jean-paul natola wrote:
> Well since i'm totally new to this, I wanted some type of gui,
>
> the machine specs are 450 mhz with 256 ram
>
> so I guess I should remove the kde install??
>
> I have verified my reverse DNS and it all checks out, and when I
> subscribed I did get the confirmation request from the list and activated
> it, all I have been receiving delayed delivery messages,,,
>
>
>
>
> >From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas at raad.tartu.ee>
> >To: jean-paul natola <jnatola at hotmail.com>
> >CC: questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: KDE INSALL
> >Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:23:34 +0300
> >
> >jean-paul natola wrote:
> >
> >>I ran make install clean for kde and after 4 days i *think* I'm almost
> >>done,,
> >>
> >>I am now at a promt for GNU ghostscript drivers and have NO CLUE as to
> >>what to select , my purpose for the FREEBSD install is to run mailscanner
> >>, what should I select , if any, for the GNU ghostscritp driver
> >>selection.
> >
> >If all you're concerned with is the mailscanner, it doesn't matter at all
> >what you select here. Just accept the defaults.
> >
> >However, if all you're concerned with is the mailscanner, why are you
> >installing KDE at all? Typical mail scanning software doesn't need KDE, and
> >it sounds like you have a machine that is too slow anyway to run KDE in any
> >usable manner (if 'make install' is still not done after 4 days).
> >
> >>PS ; any reason I would be unable to post from legitimate work email?
> >
> >Do you get an error message back when you try to post? I understand that
> >FreeBSD.org's mail server only accepts messages from hosts that have proper
> >reverse DNS defined. This may be your problem, or it may be something else
> >:)
Pretty much everything you will need/want to do, will be done through a
shell, so you needn't use a gui
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