Re: pkg_add -r gimp fails

From: David Jenkins (david.jenkins_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/12/04

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To: Andy Hochhaus <hochhaus@gmail.com>

    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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