Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:22:28 +0000 From: David Jenkins <david.jenkins@gmail.com> To: Andy Hochhaus <hochhaus@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add -r gimp fails Message-ID: <9395922d0411120122e71b96f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d35a053404111116241a4a7fef@mail.gmail.com> References: <d35a053404111116241a4a7fef@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:24:33 -0600, Andy Hochhaus <hochhaus@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. I currently do have gimp working, however I was hoping for an > explanation about why the package installation from the Internet > failed. That way next time it happens I'll have a better understanding > of why. Additionally I would like to better understand how to avoid > this happening so that I don't have to fall back on installing > programs via ports rather than packages. Hi, You could always manually download them from: ftp://FTPMIRROR/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/ ( replace FTPMIRROR with your choice of mirror from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html ) Saying that though, I have tried $ pkg_add -r gimp and it works for me. I don't know if it was a typo but have you noticed the ":" at the end of the first hyperlink you sent? ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/gimp.tbz: ) if you actually just opened the following in a browser for example (all I have done is taken the semi-colon of the end) then it downloads ... ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/gimp.tbz ? Hope this helps. David
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