From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 04:34:36 2008 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 4DB06106564A for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:34:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 487298FC2D for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:34:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.27]) by QMTA07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id YTpw1a0020bG4ec57UaBrs; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:34:11 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id YUaX1a0092P6wsM3PUaXXc; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:34:31 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=xThvkv2QsyLXb20wr_MA:9 a=_bD2a-seEmzGcdZ98RWn08DaKXMA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DDE15C9419; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:34:30 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Canhua Message-ID: <20081029043430.GB66773@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question about pkg_add 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: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:34:36 -0000 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:14:34AM +0800, Canhua wrote: > Hi, good day all. I am new to FreeBSD. > I tried to pkg_add -r a package (py-networkx), which tell me that: > Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/ > FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/py-networkx.tbz: > File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > > although I know that py-network does exist in /usr/ports. > Actually I could go to /usr/ports/math/py-networkx and make install > using ports means. > > Then I could learn from this that there are softwares that could be > install from ports while not able to be added from package system? > Am I right? Correct -- not every port has a package. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |