Follow-up Gnome2.6 is Gnome2.4?

Robert Hish roberthish at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 6 03:01:29 PDT 2004


This is a followup to my previous post.

I just tried it again, and again the instructions for installing Gnome 2.6 
via packages installs Gnome 2.4 NOT gnome 2.6.

I did a fresh install of FreeBSD5.2.1
pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
configured the supfiles and then cvsup -g -L 2 supsrc then supports
after getting everything fresh and up to date

i configured make.conf and then

make -j4 buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
reboot
etc etc per directions on freebsd handbook

everything works perfectly and i now have an up-to-date 5.2.1 install

then after final reboot i build pkg_install from sysutils/pkg_install
make install clean
works perfectly no errors

set PACKAGESITE="http://www.marcuscom.com/tb/packages/5.2.1-FreeBSD/Latest/"

pkg_add -r gnome2

and i get gnome2.4
not gnome2.6 as the web page says

ftp ftp.freebsd.org
anonymous
roberthish at hotmail.com
cd pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2.1-release/All
ls gnome2*

shows Gnome2-2.4.0 ?

what am i not getting here?

"There are two ways to install GNOME 2.6 on FreeBSD. One way is to use  
packages"
"To install GNOME 2.6 from packages, use the command:
# pkg_add -r gnome2

This will download the latest GNOME 2.6 packages from the FreeBSD FTP site, 
and proceed to install them on your system."

This is what freebsd.org/gnome has said since a few days after 2.6 was 
released, yet never have i been able to install gnome2.6 from packages using 
ftp.freebsd.org

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