Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:35:14 -0700 (MST) From: "Srinivas V." <srini@CS.Arizona.EDU> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: problems with pkg_add Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0303051930030.24167-100000@lectura.CS.Arizona.EDU>
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Hello
I recently setup a system with FreeBSD 4.5. I've been trying to install
the packages autoconf and automake on it. I downloaded the packages from a
freebsd ftp site. when i used pkg_add, i get the following error:
# pkg_add autoconf-2.53_1.tgz
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
tar: child returned status 1
tar: +CONTENTS not found in archive
pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package?
#
I get a similar error when I try installing the automake package too. The
files do seem to be valid compressed files. when i use the file command i
get:
# file autoconf-2.53_1.tgz
autoconf-2.53_1.tgz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Fri
Feb 21 08:23:11 2003, max compression, os: Unix
#
I downloaded the files twice, in case I had downloaded a corrupted version
the first time.
Any suggestions ??
Thanx
srinivas
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