hoe to install x

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Thu Dec 30 06:42:51 PST 2004


On Thursday 30 December 2004 04:37 am, Filip Haragus wrote:
> hy
>
> i'm new in freebsd and i have a problem.
>  I installed freebsd 5.3 at my workplace, but i have limited acces to
> the itnernet. I want to install xface enviroment(or any other) from
> the 5.3 release cd's(NOT over the internet). can u give me a hand?
>
> best regards
> filip

1. Mount the installation CDROM.

2. Change the working directory to /cdrom/packages/All.

3. Use pkg_add to install xorg-6.7.0_1.tbz and any other package on the 
CD you wish to add.  pkg_add will take care of dependencies.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html

4. Read the handbook and configure X:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould


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