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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!129.115.10.31!naiad.utsa.edu!uthscsa.edu!nnrp1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Order of pkg_add Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:14:06 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3356A0AE.2F1CF0FB@FreeBSD.org> References: <33565fcf.0@oit.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Gregory Pavelcak <gp@wilde.oit.umass.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39255 Gregory Pavelcak wrote: > Once again, I don't remember the exact messages, but sometimes something > like this happens: > > pkg_add pkg1 > > All seems to go well, but at the end there's a message like > can't find package2. Can't set all dependencies, or something like that. Probably because you don't have the dependant package anywhere that pkg_add is able to find it. > find and didn't. My questions: How big a problem is this? AND > If I want to fix it can I just pkg_add package2, or do I need to delete > the first package, add the second, and then re-add the first? No, you can simply pkg_add the 2nd package. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.