From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 10 16:29:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B430B10656A5 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:29:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fred@blakemfg.com) Received: from mail.getnet.net (mail.getnet.net [216.19.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 733EE8FC23 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 16297 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2010 16:29:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Aug 2010 16:29:06 -0000 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at getnet.net Received: from mail.getnet.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.getnet.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KByVPLWsiWP4 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:29:05 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 16272 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2010 16:29:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blakemfg.com) (fredb@216.19.219.132) by mail.getnet.net with ESMTPA; 10 Aug 2010 16:29:05 -0000 Sender: fred Message-ID: <4C617BA6.659B26B4@blakemfg.com> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:17:42 -0700 From: Fred Boatwright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Susbauer References: <4C60C4D9.A6BEE6E@blakemfg.com> <4C60D596.8070405@too1337.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox install problem 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: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:29:07 -0000 Hello Steve, I have not had any luck installing the package manually. The file is a tar.gz which pkg_add apparently can't handle. I did download firefox.tar.gz and unpacked it. Pkg_info says it is corrupt. Changes were apparently made to this package about two weeks ago and possibly something didn't happen correctly. Should this be reported to a different mail list or should a bug report be made? Or am I mistaken? If a package needed to be installed manually, how would pkg_add know to get all the dependencies remotely? Firefox has a huge list of dependencies which would be very difficult to deal with manually. Best regards, Fred Steven Susbauer wrote: > > On 08/09/10 22:17, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have installed FreeBSD-8.0 from the CD and have it running ok. I have > > installed several packages including thunderbird using pkg_add -r > > package_name. When I try to install firefox I get a file unavailable > > error. The web site shows firefox-3.6.8,1 is available (i386). What > > can I do to install firefox? > > > > You can manually download the package from a mirror and then install it > with pkg_add (pkg_add firefox-3.6.8,1.tbz). > _______________________________________________ > 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"