From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Nov 13 5:43: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9ABF37B401 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 05:43:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from kurush.osdn.org.ua (external.osdn.org.ua [212.40.34.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA98143E4A for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 05:43:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from never@kurush.osdn.org.ua) Received: from kurush.osdn.org.ua (never@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kurush.osdn.org.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gADDgtTP046529; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:42:56 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from never@kurush.osdn.org.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by kurush.osdn.org.ua (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gADDgsT8046528; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:42:54 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:42:53 +0200 From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: Alexander@Leidinger.net Cc: sean@inow.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: interchange-4.8.6 Message-ID: <20021113134253.GA44444@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <3DE4620E.40502@inow.com> <3DBE702E.5030209@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DBE702E.5030209@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, Alexander Leidinger! On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:25:34PM +0100, you wrote: > >I am a newbie and am trying to install Interchange onto my freeBSD > >machine using pkg_add - with the result > >"pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a > >package?" > > Where is this package from? > > Have a look at this package with "tar -tzvf package.tar.gz", if it > contains Makefile, pkg-descr, pkg-comment and pkg-plist then it is a > port, not a package. Have a look at the handbook (either in /usr/share > or on freebsd.org) for a description how to proceed further then. It also could be source tarball. P.S. Just my UAH 0.02 :) -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message