From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 10:22:46 2002 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 DBDA637B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B93043E3B for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:22:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25AC66B5E; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:22:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A76B8F89; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:23:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:23:08 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Andy Akins Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem installing linux_base Message-ID: <20021106182304.GA16440@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200211050000.25444.andy@leonidae.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <200211050000.25444.andy@leonidae.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 12:00:25AM -0600, Andy Akins wrote: > =3D=3D=3D> Generating temporary packing list > install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444=20 > /usr/ports/archivers/rpm/work/rpm-3.0.6/doc/gendiff.1 /usr/local/man/man1 > install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444=20 > /usr/ports/archivers/rpm/work/rpm-3.0.6/doc/rpm.8 /usr/local/man/man8 > install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444=20 > /usr/ports/archivers/rpm/work/rpm-3.0.6/doc/rpm2cpio.8 /usr/local/man/man8 > =3D=3D=3D> Compressing manual pages for rpm-3.0.6_6 > =3D=3D=3D> Running ldconfig > /sbin/ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib > =3D=3D=3D> Registering installation for rpm-3.0.6_6 > =3D=3D=3D> Returning to build of linux_base-7.1_1 > =3D=3D=3D> Patching for linux_base-7.1_1 > =3D=3D=3D> Configuring for linux_base-7.1_1 > =3D=3D=3D> Installing for linux_base-7.1_1 > ln: libtermcap.so.2: File exists > *** Error code 1 >=20 > Any insight? I'm rather new to FreeBSD, so I'm not sure what the problem = is.=20 > Thanks for your help. The problem is that the libtermcap.so.2 symlink already exists, and ln is being used without the '-f' flag. This was already fixed: either cvsup your ports collection and try again, or remove the symlink and try again. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message