Re: Installing Gnome on OpenBSD (i386)

[Marc Matteo <marcm@lectroid.net>]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 12:58, n a wrote:
> I have successfully installed OpenBSD and would like to use Gnome (from either the ports tree or packages).  I assume using the precomplied packages is the best route.  For that method, what packages do I need and is there a specific order they need to be added (via pkg_add)?

For Gnome 2 the "gnome-session" package is the one you want.  By
installing that via FTP as Peter described, you'll get a "basic load" of
Gnome 2.

>From there setup is pretty straight forward - you modily .xinitrc or
.xsession accordingly (I believe this is covered elsewhere so I won't go
into it here).


> Is there a document available that describes the installation process of Gnome on OpenBSD, including post install setup (mods to rc.conf.local, etc)?

No.

Marc