Desktop on Rapberry PI 2: Gnome? No packages included.

[any_name_you_wish]

Hello,

I've installed FreeBSD 13 (release, armv7) on Raspberry PI 2 (ok, it wasn't really an installation - i just copied it to my sd card).

Which x windows systems could be used on it? I was able to install xorg. So i have a gui now.

Is it possible to install x11/gnome3/ on it? pkg can't find it (no packages available).

 

[SirDice]

root@pibsd:~ # pkg search gnome3
gnome3-3.36_4                  "meta-port" for the GNOME 3 integrated X11 desktop
gnome3-lite-3.36_4             The "meta-port" of the GNOME desktop slimmed down for only the basics
libproxy-gnome3-0.4.17         GSettings-based configuration plug-in for libproxy
pinentry-gnome3-1.1.1          GNOME 3 version of the GnuPG password dialog

This is on a Pi3 though, arm64. It's possible (parts of) Gnome failed to build for ARM for whatever reason.

Edit: Looks like rust failed to build on ARM, which caused both x11/gnome3 and x11/gnome3-lite to be skipped.

Poudriere bulk results

beefy12.nyi.freebsd.org

 

[eternal_noob]

I recommend to install a more lightweight window manager like x11-wm/openbox rather than a full blown desktop. The Pi 2 isn't that performant.
You can see a screenshot here how it looks on my Raspberry Pi 400 (Openbox + tint2 + rxvt-unicode + feh).

 

[any_name_you_wish]

I don't want to use gnome - it's just more common than my wm. My windows manager is x11-wm/awesome/ and I have the same problems with it (and with firefox-esr - no packages available).

 

[eternal_noob]

Yes, these packages have also been skipped due to rust-1.55.0

Looks like rust failed to build on ARM, which caused both x11/gnome3 and x11/gnome3-lite to be skipped.

If only. There are currently 2,287 packages being skipped due to rust. I find it alarming that so many packages depend on some obscure programming language.

 

[Deleted member 15063]

Gnome3 doesn't run without gpu accel which we don't have on rpi.