From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 16:18:48 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 0635916A41F for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:18:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from efacilitas.de (smtp.efacilitas.de [85.10.196.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8569D43D45 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 16:18:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from eurystheus.local (port-212-202-37-29.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.37.29]) by efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561704AC10; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF0C512B140; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:18:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eurystheus.local ([192.168.1.67]) by localhost (eurystheus.locaL [192.168.1.67]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56550-08; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:17:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.67] (eurystheus.local [192.168.1.67]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055E212B104; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 18:17:56 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42F63434.8050603@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:17:56 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Lautenbach References: <251025804.20050807175623@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <251025804.20050807175623@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at example.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error installing some ports after fress system-install - bsd 5.4 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: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 16:18:48 -0000 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/