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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 12:32:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com>
To: Lee Crites <adonai@jump.net>
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Subject: Re: Installation woes
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On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Lee Crites wrote:
> 
> I was in the process of sending a message about this myself.  I had 14
> packages not install because it couldn't find it (including XFree86, trn,
> tcp_wrappers, ssh, expect, and kermit), and another 14 with "some error"
> (including jdk, emacs, and mtools).
> 
> I'd be interested in any pointers...
> 
> Thanks muchly...
> 
> Lee
> 
> 

This is what I was told:

1. sysinstall has a bug when installing a bunch of packages together. Use 
pkg_add instead. sysinstalls doesn't seem to reap the child processors 
correctly so the proc table fills up very quickly.

2. sysinstall also show packages which do not really exist. XFree86 does 
exist, but is not a part of the packages. You need to install it when you 
install the OS.

Hope this helps.

Kory