From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 8 6:35:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from operamail.com (operamail.infinite.com [199.29.68.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF6F537B41D for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:35:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from bro5637 [206.191.70.3] (hogtown@operamail.com) by operamail.com; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:30:56 -0500 X-WM-Posted-At: operamail.com; Tue, 8 Jan 02 09:30:56 -0500 Message-ID: <004501c19851$c3bcfc80$660f129f@bro5637> From: "Steve Brown" To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" Cc: "fbsd" References: Subject: Re: install package from pre-downloaded tgz file? Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:35:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To: "FBSD Questions" 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