Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:01:28 -0800 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh -X yields "Error: Can't open display:" Message-ID: <20051221190128.GY19387@ratchet.nebcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <20051221183239.GW19387@ratchet.nebcorp.com> References: <20051221181721.GV19387@ratchet.nebcorp.com> <20051221183239.GW19387@ratchet.nebcorp.com>
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:32:39AM -0800, Danny Howard wrote: > 1-10:29 djh@castor /usr/ports# pkg_add -r xorg-clients > Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/xorg-clients.tbz: > File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/xorg-clients.tbz' by URL So ... the way you get around that, is, you look in ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/`uname -r`/packages/All/ for the package name, then: pkg_add -r ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE/packages/All/xorg-clients-6.7.0_4.tbz And now I can run xfig. :) -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/
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