Re: pkg_add problems

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:26:30PM -0500, Don Munyak wrote:

I am having trouble using pkg_add -r <some package>. I keep getting
the following error.
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p0069# pkg_add -r bash
Error: FTP Unable to get
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/bash.tbz:
Network is unreachable
pkg_add: unable to fetch
'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/bash.tbz'
by URL
p0069#
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I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but
- I have rebuilt the kernel successfully
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p0069# uname -a
FreeBSD p0069.bm.local 6.1-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p12 #0: Thu
Feb 8 13:55:26 EST 2007
xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEBSERVER i386
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- And there is no ports tree installed.. ie /usr/ports does not exist.
- I can ping ftp.freebsd.org
- I can also ftp>open ftp.freebsd.org

Any thoughts on trouble shooting this would be appreciated.


Perhaps verbose output (-v argument) might yield a clue: pkg_add -rv some_pkg

Are you behind a firewall? You might try using passive mode ftp. See
pkg_add(1)

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