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Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, farrokhi@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: tikiwiki-1.9.7
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Robert Hettner wrote:

> Good morning (its morning here),
>
>
> I tried to pkg_add tikiwiki-1.9.7 this morning and it failed. Im sorry but I
> do not understand ports / packages well enough to ascertain exactly why it
> failed but I will try and give a reasonable picture of what happened.
>
> I have attached a text file of the key information. If you have any
> questions or suggestions please feel free to contact me.
>
>
> Regards

Robert,
      Try downloading the packages directly to $PKGDIR (usually /usr/ports/packages, but you need to set that beforehand in your environment) and then pkg_add them.
      Before that though, try pkg_add -v {options} {pkg foo} and forward that info.
Thanks,
-Garrett