Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:47:46 +0200 From: Uwe Grohnwaldt <Uwe@Grohnwaldt.eu> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: working version of acroread7 for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE needed Message-ID: <20070330234746.1264e7a3@Winter> In-Reply-To: <200703302032.l2UKWeJO028667@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200703302032.l2UKWeJO028667@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:32:40 -0500 (CDT) Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:05:57 -0500 Rick Voland > <rpvoland@facstaff.wisc.edu> wrote: > >Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I need a functioning version of acroread version 7 for my 6.1 > >> system "pkg_add -r acroread7" does not find a package. > >> "portinstall acroread7" fails initially on an error return from a > >> brandelf command, as it should, because the brandelf is being > >> applied to a shell script rather than to an executable binary. > >> Does anyone on this list know where to find a version that > >> will install and run correctly? > >> > > > >Did you try "pkg_add -r print/acroread7" or "portinstall > >print/acroread7" ? > > > I hadn't put the "print/" into the commands, no, but that was > what the commands seemed to be looking at anyway. But here: > > Script started on Fri Mar 30 15:20:54 2007 > hellas# pkg_add -r print/acroread7 > Error: FTP Unable to get > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/print/acroread7.tbz: > File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to > fetch > 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/print/acroread7.tbz' > by URL hellas# portinstall print/acroread7 cd: can't cd > to /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade hellas# exit exit if i remember correctly, portupgrade isn't in sysutils any longer. do you have the latest portstree and read the UPDATING-file in /usr/ports? portinstall print/acroread7 works fine here. > Script done on Fri Mar 30 15:21:44 2007 > > Note that the above portinstall command was run after my initial > attempts to use portinstall, during which some files appear to have > been installed and that brandelf command had failed when it tried to > brandelf a script > called /usr/X11R6/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/ENU/bin/acroread . That script > appears at a quick glance to be an installation/configuration script > for setting up an English- language version or some such thing. if something is installed, look at pkg_info: pkg_info |grep acroread if acroread7 is already installed, uninstall it pkg_delete acroread7-7.... and update the ports tree, look in /usr/ports/UPDATING for the portupgrade part and fix the portupgrade problem. after that you can user portinstall print/acroread7 :) - Uwe
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