Hello there.
My main project behind my fresh install of FreeBSD 9.x was to add a desktop to it.
As you may - I hope - remember from older posts, I was looking many ways for achieving it, without any bright result:
I managed to compile x11, as far as I know, there's no XFCE pack for PPC (
As you may expect, I have failed. I'm stuck, and I don't know if I can get any further with this.
Would PPC packages for Xorg and XFCE be released any time? (Soon or later). I would appreciate any help or advice on building Xfce or, on the other hand, Gnome.
No actual trouble with x11, just can't manage to find and install the desktop itself.
Thanks in advance and, sorry, I know I'm becoming "that guy" asking for months on how to set up a desktop on a so-considered-dead platform and on an abandonware machine like Mac Mini G4.
In advance, thanks to SirDice and wblock, for always answering my noobish questions.
My main project behind my fresh install of FreeBSD 9.x was to add a desktop to it.
As you may - I hope - remember from older posts, I was looking many ways for achieving it, without any bright result:
- Ports weren't available for my platform (it's tier 2 as said by @SirDice)
- As far as I know, PointyHat was down and never answered me in order to keep an eye on future or past builds (accomplished or failed).
- As for a), I couldn't just do
pkg_add -r xorg
like you do on your fresh 386, for example, there's NO XORG/XFCE/GNOME PACKAGE UPLOADED.
I managed to compile x11, as far as I know, there's no XFCE pack for PPC (
pkg_add -r xfce4
). Tried downloading it from main site and compile dependencies and then XFCE itself.As you may expect, I have failed. I'm stuck, and I don't know if I can get any further with this.
Would PPC packages for Xorg and XFCE be released any time? (Soon or later). I would appreciate any help or advice on building Xfce or, on the other hand, Gnome.
No actual trouble with x11, just can't manage to find and install the desktop itself.
Thanks in advance and, sorry, I know I'm becoming "that guy" asking for months on how to set up a desktop on a so-considered-dead platform and on an abandonware machine like Mac Mini G4.
In advance, thanks to SirDice and wblock, for always answering my noobish questions.
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