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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:17:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Parker H. Brown" <phb31@earthlink.net>
Cc:        support@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Q2  re: using pkg_add on 2.1.5
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970130221632.28180T-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <32F1E3FB.610C@earthlink.net>

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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Parker H. Brown wrote:

> Using the /stand/sysinstall to install numerous packages seems to be
> "problematic", because overflows of (to me) arcane types seem to occur
> on things like emacs.  I just reinstalled 2.1.5 because the X-windows
> that came with 2.1.6 doesn't seem to want to work.  I felt that using
> pkg_add (as root) would allow a tightly controlled system.

sysinstall has a known bug when installing packages.  Use pkg_add (or
pkg_manage) instead.  

You could have just rm -rf /usr/X11R6 and grabbed X 3.1.2 off the 2.1.5 CD
instead of gone the whole way....

> However, Mosaic just won't run anymore.  Either "permission not allowed"
> or "not found" messages pop up.  Mosaic installed with owner/group bin
> and rwx for other zeroed out.  I usually use the system as user pb with
> group=wheel.  Pkg_add aborted )I thought because some dependencies
> weren't there.  I pkg_add  ed the ones in the message, the re pkg_add ed
> Mosaic.  It said "already installed", so I pkg_delete ed Mosaic.  It
> said "not installed", so I pkg_add  ed Mosaic again, and it said
> "already installed".  What am I doing wrong?

pkg_add -f mosaic....

I thought it required Motif.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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