From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 21 19:01:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E2E716A41F for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:01:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@nebcorp.com) Received: from ratchet.nebcorp.com (ratchet.nebcorp.com [205.217.153.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E668C43D45 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:01:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@nebcorp.com) Received: by ratchet.nebcorp.com (Postfix, from userid 1014) id 04D3ED9855; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:01:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:01:28 -0800 From: Danny Howard To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051221190128.GY19387@ratchet.nebcorp.com> References: <20051221181721.GV19387@ratchet.nebcorp.com> <20051221183239.GW19387@ratchet.nebcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051221183239.GW19387@ratchet.nebcorp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu Subject: Re: ssh -X yields "Error: Can't open display:" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:01:30 -0000 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/