X11 / XFree86 Installation

[Bryan Maynard]

On Monday 08 August 2005 02:34 am, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
>On Monday 08 of August 2005 04:22, Teo De Las Heras wrote:
>> I tried changing MASTER_SITES but then the I got an error that the
>> local time does not match the remote ??  What did work was fetching
>> the file from the xlibs site.  I didn't even know about the fetch
>> command!!  I tried downloading that file onto my Windows desktop and
>> then using FTP to get it into my FreeBSD box.  Any idea why that was
>> causing the checksum to fail?
>
>I believe it usually happens when not entire file is downloaded in
> first try and when fetch tries the second time (perhaps from another
> mirror) this difference confuses it. What usually helps is doing
> 'make distclean' which removes partially downloaded file and then
> trying again. I'm not completely sure though :)

I had a similar problem a while ago (complaints about local time not 
matching remote). Running 'make distclean' and then manually fetching 
my needed tar balls worked for me :-)

>Dejan

Bryan
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