Anyone familiar with installing GNOME?

CodeBlox

I've got FreeBSD and I decided to install GNOME using ports. The installation has been prompting for the installation of various things. It's been taking so long that I can't sit here and start the various installations all day. It's going on day three and it's still not yet installed!! How long does it take to build GNOME? I've always used Ubuntu where it was already installed.

MentholMoose

I don't use FreeBSD but I would imagine that it has a package manager that could install GNOME and all necessary dependencies. This page looks like it might be helpful:
FreeBSD package Management (ports pkg_*) Basics

CodeBlox

I'm redoing my install of GNOME using the package as the ports build is taking a really long time and consuming an unacceptable amount of disk space.

Wasted a whole lot of time with this. I got gnome installed and I wanted to configure a few things so I logged out of my user account and logged in as root. Once I did this, my wallpaper came up but nothing else happened and I "couldn't do anything" so I rebooted it. Upon reboot, the damn system goes through a loop cycle. I loaded my live disk and checked the /etc/rc.conf and /etc/fstab files and the changes I made in them are all gone...

J_86

Are you doing this with actual hardware or in a virtual machine?

CodeBlox

It's in a virtual machine. Seems the keyboard doesn't want to work either. It'll work for a few keystrokes and then stop.