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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