I need some solution

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Wed Apr 8 19:08:38 UTC 2015


On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 23:45:58 +0530
arnab bhowmick <arnabbhowmick111 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello guys i am new to Free BSD. recently I have installed free BSD 10.1
> release on my system. I am facing some problems. When I am starting my
> system and logging in it showing a black screen with some freebsd well come
> note and a sigil($) sign at the left of the screen and nothing else. No
> graphical interface. When I am using pkg install command to install
> something like mate-desktop/ GNOME desktop or some other program it fails
> to install the package. It is replying that ( pkg: failed to extract
> pkg-static : can't create '/user/local/sbin/pkg-static' ). What to do next?
> Please help me. I am very eager to use freebsd as I am like this system
> very much. Please give me some solution.

I recommend that you instead install PC-BSD. It's a version of
FreeBSD specially packaged to be easy for people new to BSD:
http://www.pcbsd.org/

You can get FreeBSD to behave the way you want, but it doesn't
do so out of the box. PC-BSD does.

-- 
Bill Moran


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