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Operating Systems BSD Installing gnome on freebsd Post 302560910 by figaro on Sunday 2nd of October 2011 10:14:46 AM
Old 10-02-2011
Still can't get it to work. This what I am doing in the shown order:
Add to rc.conf:
Code:
gdm_enable="YES"

Add to /etc/fstab:
Code:
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0

Install ports:
Code:
portsnap fetch
portsnap extract

Install gnome:
Code:
pkg_add -r gnome2
cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2
make install clean

The installation error occurs in the last step and the follow-on packages cannot be installed such as gdk-pixbuf2 and gtk-update-icon-cache
 

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GNOME(1)						      General Commands Manual							  GNOME(1)

gnome-wm - Launches the user selected window manager for the GNOME session

SYNOPSIS
gnome-wm [--default-wm windowmanager] [--sm-client-id id] DESCRIPTION
The gnome-wm script invokes the user selected window manager. If the user has not chosen a window manager it will try to launch a GNOME compliant window manager. The user can overwrite the selection of a window manager by setting the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable. If a --default-wm option is given the script uses that window manager in case WINDOW_MANAGER is not set. If gnome-wm is given as the argument to --default-wm then it is the same as if no default was given. The script takes the --sm-client-id argument and translates the id to an appropriate option depending on which window manager was selected. ENVIRONMENT
The gnome-wm program uses the value of the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable to let the user override the configured window manager. PERSISTENT SETTINGS
The program stores the current selection of a window manager in the gconf key /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default SEE ALSO
gnome-session(1),default.session(5) BUGS
If you find bugs in the gnome-wm program, please report these using bug-buddy or the gnome-bug script included with the GNOME libraries distribution. GNOME 1.0 GNOME(1)
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