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From: witr@spooky.rwwa.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Pkg_add fails on 1026 SNAP
Date: 2 Nov 1995 03:14:43 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
Lines: 31
Message-ID: <479d33$mih@shore.shore.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: rwwa.com
Is it me or the software? Every pkg I try to install fails...:
harvey# ls -l
total 9408
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 64583 Nov 1 20:50 INDEX
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 240932 Nov 1 20:50 bash-1.14.5.tgz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 7230234 Nov 1 20:50 emacs-19.29.tgz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 214943 Nov 1 20:50 fvwm-1.24r.tgz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 164323 Nov 1 20:50 gmake-3.74.tgz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 200365 Nov 1 20:50 gnuplot-3.5.tgz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 1436047 Nov 1 20:50 perl-5.001.tgz
harvey# tar -tzvf bash-1.14.5.tgz
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel 432 Oct 6 09:35 1995 +CONTENTS
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel 49 Oct 6 09:35 1995 +COMMENT
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel 469 Oct 6 09:35 1995 +DESC
-r--r--r-- root/wheel 1917 Oct 5 12:49 1995 +MTREE_DIRS
-r-xr-xr-x bin/bin 356352 Oct 6 09:35 1995 bin/bash
-r-xr-xr-x bin/bin 2069 Oct 6 09:35 1995 bin/bashbug
-rw-r--r-- root/bin 41741 Oct 6 09:35 1995 man/man1/bash.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/bin 446 Oct 6 09:35 1995 man/man1/bash_builtins.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/bin 111477 Oct 6 09:35 1995 info/bash.info
harvey# pkg_add bash-1.14.5.tgz
tar: can't open archive ./bash-1.14.5.tgz : No such file or directory
tar: child returned status 3
tar: +CONTENTS not found in archive
Unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package?
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