From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 12 20:19:44 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 83F0416A41F for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:19:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from torstenvl@gmail.com) Received: from mx.wmich.edu (mx-tmp.wmich.edu [141.218.1.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D43D43D6A for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:19:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from torstenvl@gmail.com) Received: from fleming.admin.private (avs01.service.private [172.30.31.161]) by mta03.service.private (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.13 (built Jun 8 2005)) with SMTP id <0IMQ004BC0EWR5B1@mta03.service.private> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:19:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mta-avs02.service.private ([172.30.30.162]) by fleming.admin.private with SMTP id M2005091216193620621 ; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:19:36 -0400 Received: from [141.218.68.74] (roam68-074.rood.wmich.edu [141.218.68.74]) by mta02.service.private (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.13 (built Jun 8 2005)) with ESMTPSA id <0IMQ00B7E0GP2320@mta02.service.private>; Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:19:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:19:27 -0400 From: Josh Ockert In-reply-to: <000701c5b7d5$8bf47ce0$0c00a8c0@burning1m7l1yv> Sender: josh.ockert@wmich.edu To: jean Message-id: <4325E2CF.9090906@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <000701c5b7d5$8bf47ce0$0c00a8c0@burning1m7l1yv> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add -r not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:19:44 -0000 jean wrote: >Hi All, > >I have newly installed FreeBSD, but seem to be having a problem with >pkg_add, when I use pkg_add -r then package name >I get an error: > >pkg_add -r nano >Error: FTP Unable to get >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest >/nano.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) >pkg_add: unable to fetch >'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Lates >t/nano.tbz' by URL > >but if I use pkg_add and then the url it seems to retrieve the packge >with no problems > >pkg_add >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/editors/n >ano-1.2.5.tbz >Fetching >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/editors/n >ano-1.2.5.tbz... Done. >pkg_add: warning: package 'nano-1.2.5' requires 'gettext-0.14.5', but >'gettext-0.13.1_1' is installed > >any help would be appreciated > >Thanks > >Jean > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > packages-5-stable is maintained, i dont think packages-5.3-release still exists. i believe the handbook tells you how to change the base address of pkg_add -r