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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Package problems.... Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:44:24 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <32485638.4610@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32477983.2B6C@wsg.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) The Lord of Chaos wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have been having some problems installing a few of the packages of the > 2.1.5 -Release CD from Walnut Creek. The primary ones I was interested > in were the Radius package and rzsz. Qpop refuses to install as well. > > I get the message, "Unable to fetch package 'x' from selected media. No > package add will be done." I tried installing from FTP (primary site) > but received the same error. Any idea what's going on? Also, does > anybody know what happened to Popper? We had been using that on the > machine before reinstalling FreeBSD 2.1.5 but it doesn't appear to be on > the CD anymore.... > > Well, thanks for your time!! > I always FTP my packages and put them in a local directory before installing them -- just a quirk of mine, I guess, but that way I know I have it at the get-go. As for qpop, check the -current packages. I have it running from there, with only the dreaded symlink for libc.so.3.0 . -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |