From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 3 10:25:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F6A537B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:25:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D873943E6E for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 10:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F8628C15; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:25:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:25:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: 1 in 8 success with `pkg_add -r` In-Reply-To: <20020902003705.M27353-100000@hades> Message-ID: <20020903132254.D27368-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > I hope you do realise, though, that without seeing the exact error > message printed, if any, nobody can help you effectively. The usual pkg_add error I normally (often) get is that it is attempting to get ftp://blah.blah.blah/pkgname.tgz then a line saying not found. > Then, try using the port to install it: > # cd /usr/ports/x11/imwheel I haven't yet learned how to use portupgrade -- in this case I would only want imwheel and not -all- ports. To replicate the folder structure locally I would have to do a number of ftp's (since there is no tarball). > # make install clean > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve -- http://www.FreeBSD.org What does the clean part do? i.e. why make then install then clean (in that order?) Does make install make a binary to run or a sh configure.sh? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message