sysutils/desktop-installer is a pretty neat way to quickly install your choice of one of several Desktop Environments on FreeBSD. However, it does have some rough edges.

• When you run it for the first time, if you get the following, it is most likely that your clock is set wrong:

Cloning into '/usr/ports'...
fatal: unable to access 'https://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git/': SSL certificate problem: certificate is not yet valid

• Error handling, in general, needs to be more robust.

• The code commonly assumes that the following are available and return non-empty answers:
  • dmidecode
  • ACPI sysctls
  • pciconf -lv

The above are simply not true for anything other than amd64/i386.

• powerpc* is probably going to suffer from the same errors w/rt dmidecode/ACPI/pciconf.

• development home page
• desktop-installer source on github
• desktop-installer issues on github