problem installing Firefox using pkg_add -r

[Matthew Seaman]

On 30/01/2012 13:57, hvn wrote:
> Using v.FreeBSD 8.2, I'm trying to install Firefox 9 by pkg_add -r 
> firefox. According to the docs, this should work. However, instead of v9 
> it tries to install v 3.6 which goes wrong because of dependency 
> conflicts. Any idea on how to solve this or what goes wrong?

What FTP URL are you connecting to in order to download the firefox
package?  Firefox 9.0 postdates FreeBSD 8.2 release, so it won't be in
the packages-8.2-release collection:

ftp> pwd
Remote directory: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.2-release/Latest
ftp> ls firefox.tbz
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||51545|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
lrwxr-xr-x  1 1006  1006  27 Jan 20  2011 firefox.tbz ->
../All/firefox-3.6.13,1.tbz
226 Transfer complete.

However, if you use the packages-8-stable collection, you should get
firefox-9:

ftp> pwd
Remote directory: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/Latest
ftp> ls firefox.tbz
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||63627|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
lrwxr-xr-x  1 1006  1006  26 Jan 17 21:28 firefox.tbz ->
../All/firefox-9.0.1,1.tbz
226 Transfer complete.

Packages compiled for FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE should work perfectly well on
8.2-RELEASE-pX with the possible exception of a few things like lsof
that go poking directly into kernel memory structures.

Read about the PACKAGESITE environment variable in pkg_add(1)

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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