Installing Xorg

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AlbertAlbertson

Hello!

I was reading the FreeBSD documentation, and I read that I must install Xorg before the desktop enviroment, so... I created a new virtual machine, installed FreeBSD 8.0, and the first thing I did was:

# cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
# make install clean


As I read in the FreeBSD official Docs. BTW, the CD is not mounted in the virtual machine, so I think it's downloading from internet, right?


Well, it's installing Xorg since... 6 hours ago~... Is it normal? My net speed is 660kbps.

Thanks :).
 
Ports are just build instructions, not the actual source. So distfiles have to be downloaded from the net.

Yes, xorg is big and takes a while to build from source.

You should read the Handbook Installing Applications chapter. Some people prefer packages, which are precompiled binaries.

I like ports, but nearly the first thing I do on a new system is update the ports tree before building anything from it.
 
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