Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 13:51:05 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: "d" <daverusk@alltel.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Message-ID: <200309161351.05142.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <000801c37c7c$9bf2dec0$03c8a8c0@ripd2ei3vovj8t> References: <000801c37c7c$9bf2dec0$03c8a8c0@ripd2ei3vovj8t>
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On Tuesday 16 September 2003 01:01 pm, d wrote: > so you go to your site and get the stable packages and put them on the hard > drive. you go to that folder and do a pkg_add * to add all the packages in > the x11 directory, thinking this will get you a GUI but it throws a bunch > of package not found errors and nothing works. > what did i do wrong and what do i do next cause this isnt covered in the > manual anywhere. > > thanks > > j Are you sure you downloaded all of the dependencies? Try using pkg_add with the ftp address, path and package name instead of using the packages on your local hard drive. Then pkg_add can pull the dependencies from the ftp site. Best of luck, Andrew Gould
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