Re: [gnome-love] Requesting assistance on installing GNOME2 via Ports on FreeBSD

[Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot gnome org>]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 01:49:24AM -0800, dante wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a rather antiquated PC, Pentium 4 (usually uses i386 kernels),
> and I have installed FreeBSD successfully.  I prefer this and wish to
> install GNOME2, but I have tried just about every command to make
> config-recursive, make install, and even used portmaster and I always
> end up with an Error code 1 during the Applets installation.  I'm
> suspecting since I have an older FreeBSD version due to my hardware that
> GNOME2 doesn't seem to work as well.  I am now using Debian with GNOME,
> but wish not to use Debian.  Is it possible to download the newest
> version of GNOME in a tar.gz and see if it works after I install
> FreeBSD?  Or, if someone knows the best way to preconfigure the GNOME2
> port before I run make install, that would be most helpful.  I prefer
> GNOME over KDE any day and wish to use it.  Any ideas would be much
> appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

This belongs on a FreeBSD list.
Anyway, http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html

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Antoine