error installing some ports after fress system-install - bsd 5.4

[Marcel Lautenbach]

Guten Tag Björn König,

am Sonntag, 7. August 2005 um 18:17 schrieben Sie:

> Marcel Lautenbach wrote:

>> [...]
>> So, first I've installed bsd the standard way. After installing
>> I went back the the post-configuration.
>> Then I tried installing some ports for kde and gnome. For the
>> ease of installing I just seleced the meta-ports. I also selected
>> some editors. (emacs and vim)
>> Well, and that's it. I clicked "Install".
>> But, after some ports sysinstall came up with an error that said:
>> 
>> Add of package shared-mime-info-0-15_9 abortet, error code 1 -
>> Please check the debug screen for mor info.
>> 
>> and the debug screen said:
>> tar: Error opening archive: Empty input file: Inappropriate file type or format
>> pkg_add: tar extract of - failed!
>> pkg_add: unable to extract table of contents file from '-' not a package?
>> [...]

> I never did it this way, i.e. with sysinstall. I heard from other users
> that this often causes errors. Install additional packages as described
> in the handbook chapter 4 and 5.

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

> Regards Björn




hi björn,

thanks for your answer. well, so far i have done several
installtations (from 4.8 to 4.11 and 5.2 to 5.4) but this is the first
time i am experiencing these problems.
well, i will try it by hand then.

thanks for your help.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Marcel Lautenbach
mailto:jeansen at gmail.com