Subject: Re: Getting Gnome up quickly after initial install
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Trey Sizemore <trey@thesizemores.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/11/2006 06:55:28
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:36:09 +0100
Mark Weinem <mark.weinem@alumni.uni-duisburg-essen.de> wrote:
> Trey Sizemore:
>
> >Just did a 'make' in that directory (did I need to
> > do a 'make install' afterward? [...]
>
> Yes, 'make install' as second step.
>
> But it's faster to use the pre-build binary packages and to install
> them with 'pkg_add -fuuv gnome'
>
> You need to set the $PKG_PATH in root's .profile file:
>
> export PKG_PATH= \
> "ftp://ftp.fr.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-2006Q3/NetBSD-3.0/i386/All;ftp://ftp.fr.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-2006Q3/NetBSD-3.0/i386/vulnerable"
>
>
> Greetings, Mark
>
Thanks, I tried the above, but was getting errors about the package not
being built for the OS (I'm running NetBSD 3.1 as opposed to 3.0).
Also, not sure why I had the apparent issue building the Gnome
meta-package from source. What's the best way to cull the output of
the build?
--
Cheers,
Trey
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