pkg_add and openoffice package problems (5.2-RC2)
Luca Gerli
theglide at tiscali.it
Mon Jan 5 05:55:27 PST 2004
Hello all,
I'm totally new to FreeBSD, and I come from a Linux-Gentoo experience.
I installed 5.2RC2 yesterday without much hassle, but I'm having problems
installing OpenOffice.org v1.1 package, due to some dependency errors
coming from pkg_add that I couldn't solve either looking at the docs
or skimming through past posts.
So, I downloaded the FreeBSD package from:
http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/current/openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
First thing I tried was to run pkg_add on the downloaded package,
which failed due to some dependency errors:
falcon# pkg_add ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
pkg_add: could not find package glib-1.2.10_10 !
pkg_add: could not find package gtk-1.2.10_10 !
pkg_add: could not find package ORBit-0.5.17 !
Then I tried the "-r" option, hoping the command would automatically
download the missing and necessary packages, without much luck as
pkg_add refused to use the local ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz, and was
looking for it on ftp.freebsd...:
falcon# pkg_add -r ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/
i386/packages-current/Latest/./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz: File
unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/
i386/packages-current/Latest/./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz' by URL
I then set the PACKAGESITE to the appropriate link to download openoffice,
but then this same site was used to download the missing packages which
were obviously not found.
falcon# setenv PACKAGESITE http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/current/
falcon# pkg_add -r ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz
I'm surely doing something wrong, but my questions are:
. is there a way to specify more than one FTP/HTTP source for
packages ? PACKAGESITE does not seem to accept a syntax where
different URLs are separated by a semicolon (":");
. do I have to manually download the necessary packages that
openoffice depends on ? Or is pkg_add really able to do that alone ?
Thanks for any help / documentation pointers you might give,
Best regards,
Luca.
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