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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:48:12 +0800 (PST)
From:      "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: URGENT: error code 1 from pkg_add(1)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980119084642.2751A-100000@linux1.usls.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117132521.5516L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Doug White wrote:

> error code 1 = operation not permitted (must be root)
> 
> Try installing the package using pkg_add from the command line, instead of
> using sysinstall.

thanks doug :) i already found out what was wrong. i upgraded the tar
package to 1.12 and it has pkg_add uses an option than 1.12 doesn't
support. what i did was to rename the new tar and copied the old tar back
to the system and it worked!

thanks for the help!

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