Gnome

[ATAQ]

Hey, Does anyone know how can I get PCBSD installed with gnome as opposed to KDE?
I really dislike KDE.

[dracheflieger]

Search these forums for gnome. A couple of people have posted how. Keep in mind you'll be at the CLI for installing things as the PBI installer doesn't work in gnome.

[marc]

brr ... gnome .. .well, dependencies will kill your system, but you can try to make it work through the ports, pkg_add I suppose.
AFAIK there`s no such thing as "Gnome.pbi" ...

[damienjp]

to tell you the truth, i tried several times with a clean install of pc-bsd and it always failed. Im pretty sure there is a way but the dependencies never matched up.

Anyways if you want gnome it is mush easier to install freebsd do a port update and then do a pkg_add gnome2. This is the easiest way i found to have gnome running.

you have to be logged in as root to do this

# portsnap fetch extract
# pkg_add gnome2
# vi /etc/rc.conf
# i  gdm_enable="YES" ( i tells vi to go into editing mode & add this somewhere in there )
# :x ( saves the file and exit vi )

reboot system and it should start gnome auto, that being that you have a correctly configured x server, which is also pretty easy to figure out

[caesius]

Hey, Does anyone know how can I get PCBSD installed with gnome as opposed to KDE?
I really dislike KDE.

PCBSD looses so much functionality without KDE that it's no longer really PCBSD. If anyone doesn't like KDE then surely they would have more luck installing FreeBSD then Gnome with the support of the superb people at bsdforums.org

[TerryP]

Yes if you want Gnome really bad you should just install FreeBSD and compile for a few weeks. It would probably be less issues getting Gnome working :-)

The only thing I dislike about pc-bsd is a few things can be hard to do without running a full kde session.

[Charles]

You're probably better off using FreeBSD: http://faqs.pcbsd.org/8_334_en.html