From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 16:51:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02819 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:51:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from linux1.usls.edu (francis@irc.usls.edu [202.47.133.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02798 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:50:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from francis@usls.edu) Received: from localhost (francis@localhost) by linux1.usls.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA02767; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:48:12 +0800 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 08:48:12 +0800 (PST) From: "Francis A. Vidal" To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: URGENT: error code 1 from pkg_add(1) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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! --- u s l s N E T university of st. la salle, bacolod city, philippines . . . . . . . PGP key at ftp://ftp.usls.edu/pub/pgpkeys/francis.pgp francis vidal tel. nos. (6334).435.2324 / 433.3526