installing GNOME 2.14

[michael johnson]

On 9/21/06, azhar freebsd <freebsd999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi
> i am new about freebsd . recently  i  am tried to install GNOME
> 2.14executing the following command
> # pkg_add -r gnome2
> but when i check the install package it shows as follows .
>
> [root at belagelo]~#pkg_info | grep gnome2
> gnome2-2.10.2       The "meta-port" for the GNOME 2 integrated X11 desktop
> [root at belagelo]~#
>
> why ? it seems i failed to install the latest one (gnome 2.14). can
> anybody
> tell me how to install that
> ?
>
>
>
> [root at belagelo]~#uname -a
> FreeBSD belagelo.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3
> 09:36:13
> UTC 2005     root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> [root at belagelo]~#



^^^ The reason you have gnome 2.10 is because gnome 2.10 is what shipped
with 6.0-RELEASE.

see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
and http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq214.html for directions to keep
your ports up to date and upgrade gnome.