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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!nntp0.brunel.ac.uk!strath-cs!dcl-cs!bath.ac.uk!bsmail!inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk!hedley From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley) Subject: Re: Pkg_add fails on 1026 SNAP Message-ID: <DHGuEG.KEM@uns.bris.ac.uk> Sender: usenet@uns.bris.ac.uk (Usenet news owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk Reply-To: David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Bristol, England X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <479d33$mih@shore.shore.net> <479u96$vir@maze.dpo.uab.edu> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 11:54:16 GMT Lines: 24 Jose Rodriguez (b@iquest.com) wrote: : In article <479d33$mih@shore.shore.net>, witr@spooky.rwwa.com says... : |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? : It's not just you. I am having the exact same problems with it. I too noticed this problem. The only way I can get round it is by typing: cd /usr/local pkg_add /an/explicit/path/package.tgz At which point it seems to work. Unfortunately pkg_manage doesn't do this and hence doesn't work.... David (waiting expectantly for a fix...) -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~hedley/ finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK *** All opinions expressed are mine and mine alone ***