From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 14:30:20 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 EE9F816A41F for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:30:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from torstenvl@gmail.com) Received: from mx.wmich.edu (mx-tmp.wmich.edu [141.218.1.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6817D43D48 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:30:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from torstenvl@gmail.com) Received: from salk.admin.private (avs02.service.private [172.30.31.162]) by mta03.service.private (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.13 (built Jun 8 2005)) with SMTP id <0INM00HYWVVDR230@mta03.service.private> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mta-avs03.service.private ([172.30.30.163]) by salk.admin.private with SMTP id M2005093010301620930 ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:30:16 -0400 Received: from [10.80.140.234] (wireless140-234.wireless.wmich.edu [10.80.140.234]) by mta03.service.private (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.13 (built Jun 8 2005)) with ESMTPSA id <0INM00H2PWAGR330@mta03.service.private>; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:30:31 -0400 From: Josh Ockert In-reply-to: Sender: josh.ockert@wmich.edu To: eoghan Message-id: <433D4C07.1040704@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add problem 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: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:30:21 -0000 Uhh... Well my first bet when trying to find stuff on FTP would be to follow the path that the address given tries to specify. Had you tried, you would have found that packages-5.3-release doesn't exist under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/. This would have led you to wonder how to change the site pkg_add -r uses for packages. This, appropriately enough, is set in the environment variable PACKAGESITE, which you could have found by googling the archives (this question came up maybe a week ago) or reading the man page. My recommendation would be: o Set PACKAGESITE to: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/ o pkg_add -rf portupgrade o portupgrade -arfP eoghan wrote: > Hello > Im trying to install gnome2 via pkg_add -r since the port install gave > me an error half way through. So when I type: > pkg_add -r gnome2 > I get: > Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ > packages-5.3-release/Latest/gnome2.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file > not found, no access) > > pkg_add: unable to fetch 'tp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ > packages-5.3-release/Latest/gnome2.tbz' by URL > > I can ftp to the freeBSD site but im jut not sure what pkg to get... > any idea why my pkg_add -r doesnt work? (it seems to be the same for > any pkg i try to add) > Im using 5.3 > Thanks > Eoghan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >