pkg broken? Unable to install packages...

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 31 02:07:40 UTC 2014


Try pkg upgrade -f


-a


On 30 July 2014 18:07, Charlie <cwr at sdf.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Roland Smith wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:57:23 +0200
>> From: Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>
>> To: Charlie <cwr at SDF.ORG>
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: Re: pkg broken? Unable to install packages...
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 10:20:16PM +0000, Charlie wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello list!
>>>
>>> I'm running 10-RELEASE x64, and all of a sudden I can't seem to install
>>> any packages.
>>>
>>> No matter which package I attempt to install, the result is similar:
>>
>>
>> Don't know if it is related, but there has been some breakage in pkg
>> lately.
>> Version 1.3.3 has hit the ports tree just now. You might want to try and
>> install that from ports.
>>
>> If you build from ports, it uses the newly-built pkg-static inside the
>> port
>> for installation, so it should work.
>>
>> Roland
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>
> Hey Roland,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I tried what you suggested -- updating pkg to the
> latest version via ports -- but no luck. Same errors as before, no matter
> what I'm trying to install or update.
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Charlie
>
> cwr at sdf.org
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