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From: "Stephane Raimbault" <bsw827@freenet.mb.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ports problems
Date: 19 Jan 1997 00:48:28 GMT
Organization: The University of Manitoba
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Every time I want to install a port from the internet I get the following
error:

>> Checksum mismatch for filename.tar.gz
*** Error code 1

Stop.

I don't understand why I get this error.  I have succesfully run ports from
this machine(different installation of FBSD) before.  I don't know what is
wrong.  I have gotten this error while trying to install Lynx and
Netscape3.  I downloaded all the ports from www.freebsd.org very recently. 
I was thinking it could be that the files are getting corrupted when they
are downloaded but ruled this out by manually installing the downloaded
files.  I also thought it could be the file attributes but it seems to be
allright.
-rw-rw-r--   is the attributes of the downloaded files.  I don't understand
what is going wrong.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Stephane Raimbault