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[Steven N. Fettig]

Eric F Crist wrote:

>On Sunday 15 February 2004 10:51 pm, Steven N. Fettig wrote:
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>>I originally had problems with that error, too.  I ran 'pkg_add -r
>>openoffice-1.1' making sure that the openoffice-1.10_1.tgz was in the
>>/usr/ports/distfiles directory.  I can't remember having any issues
>>after that.  (Oh, I also made sure that /usr/ports/java/jdk14 was
>>installed before going through all of this.  It was a huge pain, but
>>having the jkd14 package installed has solved a lot of mozilla and
>>openoffice related installation problems.)
>>(But, I have been working on two projects at once and am not so sure...
>>maybe I need some sleep.)
>>
>>Steve Fettig
>>
>>Eric F Crist wrote:
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>>><snip>
>>>
>>>
>>>I get an error about ORBit-0.5.17 not found.  I'm guessing this is a
>>>dependency I need?  I typed, from CLI:
>>>
>>># pkg_add openoffice.x.x.x
>>>      
>>>
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>As you said, I put the file, openoffice-1.1.0_1.tgz to /usr/ports/distfiles 
>and I get the following error when I type pkg_add -r openoffice-1.1 or 
>pkg_add -r openoffice-1.1.0_1 (or any other combination):
>
>Error: FTP Unable to get 
>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/openoffice-1.1.0_1.tgz: 
>File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>pkg_add: unable to fetch 
>'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/openoffice-1.1.0_1.tgz' 
>by URL
>
>thanks.
>
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I'm grasping here, but try:
pkg_add -r openoffice-1.1 (w/ out any of the trailing info).  See if it 
simply tries to use the openoffice tgz that you have downloaded.  I 
remember working on this for quite a while until figuring out the 
correct sequence of steps I needed to use.

Steve Fettig