From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 0:54:53 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 E30CB37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horkos.telenet-ops.be (horkos.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7312343E3B for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:54:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Guido@VanHoecke.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id D942C84CD8 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:54:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from VanHoecke.org (D577124C.kabel.telenet.be [213.119.18.76]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id B968184718 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:54:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3D940ECB.2020503@VanHoecke.org> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:54:51 +0200 From: Guido Van Hoecke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need help with pkg_add References: <1033087815.609c1480TapRoot420@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 TapRoot420 wrote: > Hello, I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 DP1 and everything is great with the system except i cant get pkg_add to work via ftp. I am trying to install the current afterstep package from the offical freebsd ftp server. > > Here is what i am trying per the handbook. > > # pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-CURRENT/p > ackages/afterstep/afterstep-1.8.11.tbz > Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.0-CURRENT/packages/af > terstep/afterstep-1.8.11.tbz... As mentionned earlier on this list, the 'tbz' format is the culprit. AFAIK, switchover to this format is being rolled back. -- Guido Van Hoecke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message