FreeBSD vs. window managers
Andrew L. Gould
algould at datawok.com
Fri Sep 2 12:05:55 PDT 2005
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:19:09 -0600
hal <hal at cc.usu.edu> wrote:
> For FreeBSD 5.4 what is the:
> default window manager?
> developer recommended window manager?
> easiest to install?
>
> I am not trying to start a religious war here.
> I am currently installing KDE from source and it
> is taking forever.
>
> #cd /usr/ports/x11/KDE3
> # make
>
> Some of the packages needed cannot be found by the
> make file. Google is great but some of the packages are
> really hard to find.
>
> hal
Is there a reason you're compiling KDE from source? KDE is included on
the installation CD's. Using pkg_add, you can also install binary
packages (and their dependencies) for releases and stable branches from
the ftp sites. For example, to get KDE for the i386 architecture, 5-
STABLE branch, root would execute:
pkg_add
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All/kde-3.4.2.tbz
(Beware wordwrap in emails.)
Regards,
Andrew Gould
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