pkg_add -r not working

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Sep 12 13:17:59 PDT 2005


On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:06:59PM +0100, jean wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I have newly installed FreeBSD, but seem to be having a problem with
> pkg_add, when I use pkg_add -r then package name 
> I get an error:
>  
> pkg_add -r nano
> Error: FTP Unable to get
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest
> /nano.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> pkg_add: unable to fetch
> 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Lates
> t/nano.tbz' by URL
>  
> but if I use pkg_add and then the url it seems to retrieve the packge
> with no problems
>  
> pkg_add
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/editors/n
> ano-1.2.5.tbz
> Fetching
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/editors/n
> ano-1.2.5.tbz... Done.
> pkg_add: warning: package 'nano-1.2.5' requires 'gettext-0.14.5', but
> 'gettext-0.13.1_1' is installed
>  
> any help would be appreciated 

Those are different URLs, of course.  5.3 packages are no longer on
the main ftp site for space reasons, so if you want them you'll have
to look on other mirrors (try http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org to get
started).

Kris
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