From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 21:00:05 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 94A7A16A420 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:00:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeansen@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA8643F39 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 21:00:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeansen@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i13so925268wra for ; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:00:03 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:x-mailer:reply-to:x-priority:message-id:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ptio77DHZYsJ4VPxMmPSX5Jc9KidDoFdQThJte9jxyUdehFc861ksDdLN+6/LFUrUSUtFlU1vkPx1AFFMdL1HB/KS1PHob+nqJV7xlfeXwJtRJoXqTkD54NotbCGBrcXvoUBjxqrQGdOLti2gSGRzFALptgXaKLHLd4zIh8sCG0= Received: by 10.54.4.8 with SMTP id 8mr4430121wrd; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from VM-WORK ([80.133.204.100]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 13sm7031608wrl.2005.08.07.14.00.02; Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 23:00:31 +0200 From: Marcel Lautenbach X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.5.30) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <418638850.20050807230031@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= In-Reply-To: <42F63434.8050603@cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <251025804.20050807175623@gmail.com> <42F63434.8050603@cs.tu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 Reply-To: Marcel Lautenbach List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 21:00:05 -0000 Guten Tag Bj=F6rn K=F6nig, am Sonntag, 7. August 2005 um 18:17 schrieben Sie: > 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: >>=20 >> Add of package shared-mime-info-0-15_9 abortet, error code 1 - >> Please check the debug screen for mor info. >>=20 >> 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 Bj=F6rn hi bj=F6rn, thanks for your answer. well, so far i have done several installtations (from 4.8 to 4.11 and 5.2 to 5.4) but this is the first time i am experiencing these problems. well, i will try it by hand then. thanks for your help. --=20 Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen Marcel Lautenbach mailto:jeansen@gmail.com