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@Riteshkakkar

Some few more details about BSD.
Take into consideration if you need sudo! BSD is something like the grandpa of apple and millions of apple users complain about sudo, not knowing...

Bumping up posts or double posting is not permitted in these forums.

Please read the rules (https://www.unix.com/misc.php?do=cfrules), which you agreed to when you registered, if you have not...

Depending on which thing you mean, messenger chat may be an archaic thing which doesn't actually work in modern Linux/UNIX.

So, be more specific.

It is a really good handbook to download for BSD out there, get it, it still helps me. If you have the image, make it an installation medium, CD or USB-drive, to navigate inside the installation,...

I downloaded DesktopBSD1.6 and wanted to install it.
but it couldn't start X and gave me a shell !
I had once installed PCBSD and it didn't have any problems.
any one having the same problem? or...

it all pretty much installs and configures itself. your main issue will probably be getting xorg configured. which is still very simple... given that you know hor/vert refresh rates and what video...

Hello,

i don't know what "install the BSD on desktop" means, but if you are looking for an Newbie friendly DesktopOS with FreeBSD under the hood --> Try PC-BSD - Home (http://www.pcbsd.org)

Thanks a lot

What kind of desktop? Do you want an actual desktop environment or what? Have you even installed FreeBSD yet?

;)Hello everyone,I'm a new FreeBSD user,I don't know how to intall the BSD on desktop,please help me ~~ Thanks~~:D

I suggest to read here and start over again AFTER reading it!

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way (http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)

That depends. It depends on what you want to do (which we do not know).



This probably means the action you tried has not completed successfully. You might want to do something that doesn't...

Similar to your post on another section of the Board.
https://www.unix.com/solaris/270346-how-install-solaris-desktop.html#post302989175

What are you installing it on?
Do you have the install media already; downloading it from somewhere?

Did you do ANY reading in the provided link? Where do you have problems understandig what is written in the link? Do you have any other problems during following the steps from the documentation?...

As previously posted: If you read the document linked by DukeNuke2 in the first reply to your question, you will see the command to run is packagemanager You then need to read the rest of the...

Please read the documentation for yourself. Everything is explained step by step!

The desktop topic is done here. You already opened other posts for your follow-up questions. So this thread will be closed!

Looks like it is available in the opencsw repository: Package Search (http://sfe.opencsw.org/localhosts11/en/search.shtml?token=vlc&action=Search)

What is asking for super user?

Sounds good.

Did you reboot ?

If you did, there might be an issue with your graphic card or with the prerequisites, especially services.

Are error messages...

5 seconds of google search finds this guide (http://thegeekdiary.com/how-to-install-desktop-gui-in-solaris-11/).

You need to reboot, it seems.

That's something you need to look up before you install. Most modern consumer PC's are UEFI. Does the computer boot normally from its own hard drive?

With the correct package name (all lowercase), that should be better:
sudo pkg install solaris-desktop

Welcome to the forum.

Having seen all four threads that you started today (from your joining till now) may I ask you to accept the advice that posts terse like yours may not attract the attention...

Cursor is blinking (slightly) while loading page in Firefox, or during scrolling a window.
I tried some variants of linux (gnome permanently) and of course my solaris.
May be an artifact of...