Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:18:16 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "Steve Brown" <freebsd@prayforwind.com> Cc: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: install package from pre-downloaded tgz file? Message-ID: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOAELLCLAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <004501c19851$c3bcfc80$660f129f@bro5637>
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Yes this worked just like you said. But when it ran it said it needed other packages that were missing. I thought when I selected a package install it was a complete pre complied working environment ready to use as is after install completes. What I think I see happening is a package does not include any of it's required dependents pre-compiled into the package. That the package will still require it's dependents, but it needs the packaged versions of it's dependents. Am I correct in this? Another thing I saw was when pkg_add tries to download the other dependent packages it tries to but them in /var directory tree and not /usr directory tree. /usr has 1.7G free space and /var has 18M free space and all the dependents fill up the /var so the pkg_add terminates due to ran out of space. Is there some way to tell pkg_add to use /usr to stage package install instead of /var? Thanks Joe -----Original Message----- From: Steve Brown [mailto:freebsd@prayforwind.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:35 AM To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: fbsd Subject: Re: install package from pre-downloaded tgz file? pkg_add needs the whole filename if you install it from local disk, and it finds it if the file is in your current directory. (I usually pull it down to my home dir as an ordinary user, su to pkg_add it, exit back to normal user to delete the .tgz file, try the app) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com> To: "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: January 8, 2002 8:50 AM Subject: install package from pre-downloaded tgz file? > When I tried to pkg_add -rv pkg-name got message that > file could not be found on FTP server xxxxx or server > could not be reached or no access allowed. > Before these messages it also said passive ftp enabled. > I then used FBSD web/ports to locate the package and > downloaded to a win box and then moved it to FBSD. > I can not get pkg_add to find and use this package tgz file. > > Does the package tgz file have to be in some directory for > the pkg_add to find it? IF so where? > > How do I get pkg_add to use the local package.tgz file > to install from? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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