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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