Andrew L. Gould
algould at datawok.com
Tue Sep 16 11:50:44 PDT 2003
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 01:01 pm, d wrote:
> so you go to your site and get the stable packages and put them on the hard
> drive. you go to that folder and do a pkg_add * to add all the packages in
> the x11 directory, thinking this will get you a GUI but it throws a bunch
> of package not found errors and nothing works.
> what did i do wrong and what do i do next cause this isnt covered in the
> manual anywhere.
>
> thanks
>
> j
Are you sure you downloaded all of the dependencies? Try using pkg_add with
the ftp address, path and package name instead of using the packages on your
local hard drive. Then pkg_add can pull the dependencies from the ftp site.
Best of luck,
Andrew Gould
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