Howto turn FreeBSD into PC-BSD?

[bergschreck]

Since PC-BSD did not boot on my Toshiba Satellite Pro A200, I installed FreeBSD 9.0, that worked fine.

After installing X11, Gnome2 and Firefox, I see that Firefox is an old version (9.0).

How can I now install AppCafe to get all the PC-BSD packages (which contain Firefox 12)?

[kmoore134]

This is probably the best way to convert your FreeBSD desktop to PC-BSD:

First, checkout our sources via subversion:

# svn co svn://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current current
# cd current/src-sh
# make install
# cd ../src-qt4
# make install

That will install all the necessary bits / tools for the AppCafe to
function.

[FreeMWP]

Here is a more complete Howto:

Make sure you have these ports installed, using pkg_add or ports:

devel/subversion
devel/cmake
devel/cmake-gui
devel/gmake
devel/qt4-assistant
devel/qt4-assistant-adp
devel/qt4-designer
misc/qt4-doc
devel/qt4-libqtassistantclient
devel/qt4-linguist
devel/qt4-moc
devel/qmake4
devel/qt4-rcc
devel/qt4-qtsolutions-singleapplication

Then run:

# svn co svn://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current current
# cd current/src-sh
# make
# make install
# cd ../src-qt4/libpcbsd
# qmake-qt4 *.pro
# make
# make install
# cd ..
# qmake-qt4 *.pro
# make
# make install

[cabriofahrer]

I have a working FreeBSD 9.0 - system and I did a "pkg_add -r libpcbsd" (from 9-stable-packages). It installed, but appcafe does not show up or exist as command.
A pkg_info gives me:

elvis69# pkg_info | grep libpcbsd
libpcbsd-8.0 PC-BSD Support Library

I assume it should be 9.0 instead of 8.0, but a newer version does not exist in ports either?

[Beanpole]

@cabriofahrer
You will want to use the instructions that FreeMWP posted earlier rather than installing the libpcbsd port.
libpcbsd is simply a library of functions that our PC-BSD tools use, not the tools themselves. Because of this, you always want to make sure that you build both the current versions of libpcbsd and the tools at the same time so that there are no incompatibilities between them