(no subject) Gnome

[Jerry]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:36:27 +0200
Lokadamus Lokadamus <Lokadamus at gmx.de> replied:

>nicholas addei schrieb:
>> please am not able to install gnome on freebsd 7.2,after loging in
>> as root
>>
>> would appreciate your help.
>>
>>
>>
>> :49:13 UTC 2009
>> root at walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i 
>>
>> 86
>>   
>Normaly you do
>pkg_add -r gnome
>
>But know i get an error back.
>pkg_add -nr gnome
>Error: FTP Unable to get 
>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz: 
>File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>pkg_add: unable to fetch 
>'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/gnome.tbz' 
>by URL
>
>With
>cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2
>make install
>will it work, but some hours/ days need to install.
>
>An old 1GHz System need 3 days for KDE 3 ;).
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/packages-using.html
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html

Running as root:

	pkg_add -nr gnome2

It works here. Is your ports tree up-to-date?

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Jerry
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