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Date:      Mon, 5 May 2008 14:54:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      doug@safeport.com
To:        Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org>
Cc:        =?utf-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_J=C4=99drzejczak?= <jedrzejczak.michal@gmail.com>, Ruel Luchavez <ruel.freebsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X11 installation error
Message-ID:  <20080505144935.H37598@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <86fxsxqfq3.fsf@nowhere.org>
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On Mon, 5 May 2008, Glyn Millington wrote:

> "Ruel Luchavez" <ruel.freebsd@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I already try it but the server reply me an error:
>>
>> Error:  FTP Unable to get
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/
>>           xorg.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
>> pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/
>>           pub/FreeBSD/i386/packages6.2-release/Latest/xorg.tbz' by URL

This is most likely a naming issue. Use ftp and manually cd to the above 
directory to find out the name.

>> can anyone Help me to solve it..
>
> Is there something odd going on in your package database? Have you tried
> a
>
> #pkgdb -F     ?
>
Also because of the libraries involved you may not be able to do 'make install' 
while xorg is running. Personally I subscribe to using the package because of 
the length of time to build.



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