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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Pkg_add fails on 1026 SNAP
References: <479d33$mih@shore.shore.net>
Organization: Mordor International
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 1995 09:42:52 GMT
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witr@spooky.rwwa.com wrote:
: 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?

Same here.  I downloaded the pine-3.91.tgz file, unpacked the files
into a directory called /usr/local/src/pine, typed "pkg_add pine-3.91"
and got:

Can't find package `pine-3.91'.

according to +CONTENTS, the name of the package is "@name pine-3.91"

What am I doing wrong?  The same thing happens on EVERY package.

Cheers,

Chris


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