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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Order of pkg_add
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:14:06 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Gregory Pavelcak wrote:
> Once again, I don't remember the exact messages, but sometimes something
> like this happens:
> 
>         pkg_add pkg1
> 
> All seems to go well, but at the end there's a message like
> can't find package2. Can't set all dependencies, or something like that.

Probably because you don't have the dependant package anywhere that
pkg_add is able to find it.

> find and didn't. My questions: How big a problem is this? AND
> If I want to fix it can I just pkg_add package2, or do I need to delete
> the first package, add the second, and then re-add the first?

No, you can simply pkg_add the 2nd package.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.