Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 15:42:53 +0200 From: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: Alexander@Leidinger.net Cc: sean@inow.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: interchange-4.8.6 Message-ID: <20021113134253.GA44444@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <3DBE702E.5030209@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de> References: <3DE4620E.40502@inow.com> <3DBE702E.5030209@graphics.cs.uni-sb.de>
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Hello, Alexander Leidinger! On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:25:34PM +0100, you wrote: > >I am a newbie and am trying to install Interchange onto my freeBSD > >machine using pkg_add - with the result > >"pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a > >package?" > > Where is this package from? > > Have a look at this package with "tar -tzvf package.tar.gz", if it > contains Makefile, pkg-descr, pkg-comment and pkg-plist then it is a > port, not a package. Have a look at the handbook (either in /usr/share > or on freebsd.org) for a description how to proceed further then. It also could be source tarball. P.S. Just my UAH 0.02 :) -- NEVE-RIPE Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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