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Date:      Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:18:20 +0200
From:      "mark rowlands" <mar@bull.se>
To:        <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        <martinm@visualedge.com>
Subject:   RE: unable to install local package : package does not seem to exist on installation media
Message-ID:  <001201bf0a6c$56aeb860$ecf3b581@bull.no>
In-Reply-To: <001d01bf09f4$909705f0$a600a8c0@visualedge.com>

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it's ok, I've always been to dumb to work out when my intelligence is being
insulted :-)

Yes it is the first CD, I have tried two installs,

1) Full install, all binaries all source code
2) minimum install - to find out where was the naughty bit

I have repeated this with a freshly downloaded iso - unpacked to a dos
partition (to rule out any corruption in the burn process,

I also tried a make world ( just for fun) 3.5 hours of fun.

every port I have tried so far fails to install because /usr/local is empty
with

unable to open /usr/local/lib/ldconfig  or /usr/local/libexec....  type
errors

when you run /stand/sysinstall - and take the post config option and install
additional distribution sets   e.g   bin compat docs etc there is an option
to install "local" - this fails with a "this does not exist on your
distribution media"
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Mactaggart [mailto:martinm@visualedge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 11:01 PM
To: mar@bull.se
Subject: Re: unable to install local package : package does not seem to
exist on installation media


   Which package causes the breakdown?

    At the risk of insulting your intelligence (I don't have any idea if you
have PhD in computing or in Social Science :) are you sure you have the
right CD in the drive?  FreeBSD is a 4 CD set, so if you DL'd the ISO by
FTP, go easy on the packages... You'll have to install a relitively minimal
(well, not THAT minimal) system and then download the packages you want
manually (well, not that manually) from the net.

----- Original Message -----
From: mark rowlands <mar@bull.se>
To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 3:15 PM
Subject: unable to install local package : package does not seem to exist on
installation media


Doing an install from the 3.3 CD, the above message occurs and all subseqent
package installations fail. with various messages about stuff in
/usr/local/libxxxx.  Any words of wisdom. I have successfully installed 3.2
at home without this problem!

Mark - currently ftping the contents of his home machines /usr/local in the
hopelessly optimistic ambition that this will fix the problem. Rowlands



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