From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 07:08:57 2004 Return-Path: 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 AFD9916A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 07:08:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from cpanel10.gzo.com (69-56-171-54.theplanet.com [69.56.171.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC08C43D60 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 07:08:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dany_list@natzo.com) Received: from [12.146.133.135] (helo=natzo.com) by cpanel10.gzo.com with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.24) id 1AdWL8-0001CW-81; Mon, 05 Jan 2004 09:08:22 -0600 Message-ID: <3FF97E81.3060307@natzo.com> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 10:10:57 -0500 From: Dany User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luca Gerli References: <3FF96CBF.9000606@tiscali.it> In-Reply-To: <3FF96CBF.9000606@tiscali.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel10.gzo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - natzo.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add and openoffice package problems (5.2-RC2) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:08:57 -0000 I got OpenOffice working on my 5.2 with the help of a gentleman for the bsdforums who sent me a newer version compiled for 5.2RC2. I didn't want to compile it by myself (time consuming) so it was kind of him to make this available. Worked right out of the box. If you want I can post the file on my webserver so you can download it. Just say the word. Cheers Dany Luca Gerli wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm totally new to FreeBSD, and I come from a Linux-Gentoo experience. > I installed 5.2RC2 yesterday without much hassle, but I'm having problems > installing OpenOffice.org v1.1 package, due to some dependency errors > coming from pkg_add that I couldn't solve either looking at the docs > or skimming through past posts. > > So, I downloaded the FreeBSD package from: > > http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/current/openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz > > First thing I tried was to run pkg_add on the downloaded package, > which failed due to some dependency errors: > > falcon# pkg_add ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz > pkg_add: could not find package glib-1.2.10_10 ! > pkg_add: could not find package gtk-1.2.10_10 ! > pkg_add: could not find package ORBit-0.5.17 ! > > Then I tried the "-r" option, hoping the command would automatically > download the missing and necessary packages, without much luck as > pkg_add refused to use the local ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz, and was > looking for it on ftp.freebsd...: > > falcon# pkg_add -r ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz > Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ > i386/packages-current/Latest/./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz: File > unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) > pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ > i386/packages-current/Latest/./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz' by URL > > I then set the PACKAGESITE to the appropriate link to download > openoffice, > but then this same site was used to download the missing packages which > were obviously not found. > > falcon# setenv PACKAGESITE http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/current/ > falcon# pkg_add -r ./openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz > > I'm surely doing something wrong, but my questions are: > > . is there a way to specify more than one FTP/HTTP source for > packages ? PACKAGESITE does not seem to accept a syntax where > different URLs are separated by a semicolon (":"); > > . do I have to manually download the necessary packages that > openoffice depends on ? Or is pkg_add really able to do that alone ? > > Thanks for any help / documentation pointers you might give, > > Best regards, > Luca. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"