Another error when trying to install a package

Jeffrey Goldberg jeffrey at goldmark.org
Sat May 26 14:15:36 UTC 2007


On May 26, 2007, at 6:31 AM, dbetts wrote:

> This is a error message i receive when I try to install any pack  
> using the package_add -r
>
>> Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ 
>> i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/amavisd-new.tbz: File unavailable  
>> (e.g., file not found, no access)
>> pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ 
>> i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/amavisd-new.tbz' by URL

Does this happen with every package, or just the ones that need to be  
fetched via ftp?  If it is specific to ftp, you may wish to check  
your firewall to see if you are blocking things that lead to ftp  
failures.

-j


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