Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:17:56 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Marcel Lautenbach <jeansen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error installing some ports after fress system-install - bsd 5.4 Message-ID: <42F63434.8050603@cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <251025804.20050807175623@gmail.com> References: <251025804.20050807175623@gmail.com>
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Marcel Lautenbach wrote: > [...] > So, first I've installed bsd the standard way. After installing I went back the the post-configuration. > Then I tried installing some ports for kde and gnome. For the ease of installing I just seleced the meta-ports. I also selected some editors. (emacs and vim) > Well, and that's it. I clicked "Install". > But, after some ports sysinstall came up with an error that said: > > Add of package shared-mime-info-0-15_9 abortet, error code 1 - Please check the debug screen for mor info. > > and the debug screen said: > tar: Error opening archive: Empty input file: Inappropriate file type or format > pkg_add: tar extract of - failed! > pkg_add: unable to extract table of contents file from '-' not a package? > [...] I never did it this way, i.e. with sysinstall. I heard from other users that this often causes errors. Install additional packages as described in the handbook chapter 4 and 5. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Regards Björn -- Björn König (bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) student at the Technische Universität Berlin http://bkoenig.alpha-tierchen.de/
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