From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 21:47:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29FD416A400 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:47:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@grohnwaldt.eu) Received: from p15150876.pureserver.info (grohnwaldt.de [82.165.31.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B14B13C459 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:47:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@grohnwaldt.eu) Received: (qmail 745 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2007 23:47:51 +0200 Received: from vpn017195.uni-rostock.de (HELO Winter) (139.30.17.195) by muhkuhsaft.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 30 Mar 2007 23:47:50 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:47:46 +0200 From: Uwe Grohnwaldt To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070330234746.1264e7a3@Winter> In-Reply-To: <200703302032.l2UKWeJO028667@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200703302032.l2UKWeJO028667@mp.cs.niu.edu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: working version of acroread7 for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:47:54 -0000 On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:32:40 -0500 (CDT) Scott Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:05:57 -0500 Rick Voland > 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