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From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
To: Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:26:49 -0600
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Subject: Re: Updating Ports Index
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On Monday 05 January 2004 05:22 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote:
> For some reason, I can't seem to update the index for the ports database:
>
> idfubar# cd /usr/ports
> idfubar# make index
> Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..perl: not found
> perl: not found
> Done.

Install Perl?!

>
> I also tried attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu' after a successful CVSUp,
> but am running into some problems:
>
> idfubar# portsdb -Uu
> Updating the ports index ... perl: not found
> /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `write': Broken pipe
> (Errno::EPIPE)
>        from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70:in `puts'
>        from /usr/local/sbin/make_describe_pass2:70
> failed to generate INDEX!
> portsdb: index generation error
>
>
> Can anyone explain why I might be getting these errors?  My installation
> was a minimal install, do I need to install something else for the 'make
> index' command to work properly?
>
> -R
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Best regards,
Chris