pkg_add problem

eoghan freebsd at redry.net
Fri Sep 30 10:37:43 PDT 2005


On 30 Sep 2005, at 18:05, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:00:15PM +0100, eoghan wrote:
>
>> On 30 Sep 2005, at 15:30, Josh Ockert wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Uhh... Well my first bet when trying to find stuff on FTP would be
>>> to follow the path that the address given tries to specify. Had you
>>> tried, you would have found that packages-5.3-release doesn't exist
>>> under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/. This would
>>> have led you to wonder how to change the site pkg_add -r uses for
>>> packages. This, appropriately enough, is set in the environment
>>> variable PACKAGESITE, which you could have found by googling the
>>> archives (this question came up maybe a week ago) or reading the
>>> man page.
>>>
>>>
>>> My recommendation would be:
>>> o Set PACKAGESITE to:
>>>   ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/
>>> o pkg_add -rf portupgrade
>>> o portupgrade -arfP
>>>
>>
>> Ok thanks. I have done this...
>> setenv PACKAGESITE ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
>> packages-5-stable/
>> and im still getting the same error.
>>
>
> Show us the error, it can't be precisely the same one since you
> changed the environment variable.

i set the PACKAGESITE... then
pkg_add -r gnome2

Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ 
packages-5-stable/gnome2.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., not found, no  
access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ 
i386/packages-5-stable/gnome2.tbz' by URL







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