Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 14:55:11 +0100 From: Luca Gerli <theglide@tiscali.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pkg_add and openoffice package problems (5.2-RC2) Message-ID: <3FF96CBF.9000606@tiscali.it>
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Hello all, I'm totally new to FreeBSD, and I come from a Linux-Gentoo experience. I installed 5.2RC2 yesterday without much hassle, but I'm having problems installing OpenOffice.org v1.1 package, due to some dependency errors coming from pkg_add that I couldn't solve either looking at the docs or skimming through past posts. So, I downloaded the FreeBSD package from: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/current/openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz First thing I tried was to run pkg_add on the downloaded package, which failed due to some dependency errors: falcon# pkg_add ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz pkg_add: could not find package glib-1.2.10_10 ! pkg_add: could not find package gtk-1.2.10_10 ! pkg_add: could not find package ORBit-0.5.17 ! Then I tried the "-r" option, hoping the command would automatically download the missing and necessary packages, without much luck as pkg_add refused to use the local ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz, and was looking for it on ftp.freebsd...: falcon# pkg_add -r ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ i386/packages-current/Latest/./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ i386/packages-current/Latest/./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz' by URL I then set the PACKAGESITE to the appropriate link to download openoffice, but then this same site was used to download the missing packages which were obviously not found. falcon# setenv PACKAGESITE http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/current/ falcon# pkg_add -r ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz I'm surely doing something wrong, but my questions are: . is there a way to specify more than one FTP/HTTP source for packages ? PACKAGESITE does not seem to accept a syntax where different URLs are separated by a semicolon (":"); . do I have to manually download the necessary packages that openoffice depends on ? Or is pkg_add really able to do that alone ? Thanks for any help / documentation pointers you might give, Best regards, Luca.
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