installing gnome

[Byung-Hee HWANG]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 12:12 -0800, Michael Silverstein wrote:
> From the FreeBSD handbook:
> 
>   5.7.1.2 Installing GNOME
> 
>      The software can be easily installed from a package or the Ports
>      Collection:
> 
>      To install the GNOME package from the network, simply type:
> # pkg_add -r gnome2

i would like to suggest `pkg_add -r -v gnome2-lite' ;;
gnome2-lite also good production!

> It ftp'd a whole load of .tbz files one after another ("Fetching .... done") fo
> r about an hour, then said
> 
>      "Broken Pipe"
> 
> and quit. Last fetch was gnome-games-2.16.1.tbz
> 
> Does this mean
> a) I have successfully completed the installation?
> b) I have made some error?
> c) There is something wrong with pkg_add?
> d) ?

show us `uname -a' because installing package depends on -RELEASE
version. if you are using -STABLE or -CURRENT or -BETA, then you
encounter strange problems...

respect,
bh

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