error installing some ports after fress system-install - bsd 5.4

[Björn König]

Marcel Lautenbach wrote:

> [...]
> So, first I've installed bsd the standard way. After installing I went back the the post-configuration.
> Then I tried installing some ports for kde and gnome. For the ease of installing I just seleced the meta-ports. I also selected some editors. (emacs and vim)
> Well, and that's it. I clicked "Install".
> But, after some ports sysinstall came up with an error that said:
> 
> Add of package shared-mime-info-0-15_9 abortet, error code 1 - Please check the debug screen for mor info.
> 
> and the debug screen said:
> tar: Error opening archive: Empty input file: Inappropriate file type or format
> pkg_add: tar extract of - failed!
> pkg_add: unable to extract table of contents file from '-' not a package?
> [...]

I never did it this way, i.e. with sysinstall. I heard from other users 
that this often causes errors. Install additional packages as described 
in the handbook chapter 4 and 5.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/

Regards Björn



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student at the Technische Universität Berlin
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