Hello Steve, I have not had any luck installing the package manually. The file is a tar.gz which pkg_add apparently can't handle. I did download firefox.tar.gz and unpacked it. Pkg_info says it is corrupt. Changes were apparently made to this package about two weeks ago and possibly something didn't happen correctly. Should this be reported to a different mail list or should a bug report be made? Or am I mistaken?
If a package needed to be installed manually, how would pkg_add know to get all the dependencies remotely? Firefox has a huge list of dependencies which would be very difficult to deal with manually. Best regards, Fred Steven Susbauer wrote: > > On 08/09/10 22:17, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have installed FreeBSD-8.0 from the CD and have it running ok. I have > > installed several packages including thunderbird using pkg_add -r > > package_name. When I try to install firefox I get a file unavailable > > error. The web site shows firefox-3.6.8,1 is available (i386). What > > can I do to install firefox? > > > > You can manually download the package from a mirror and then install it > with pkg_add (pkg_add firefox-3.6.8,1.tbz). > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
