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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: tedm@portsoft.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Order of pkg_add Date: 18 Apr 1997 06:37:20 GMT Organization: Easystreet Online Services Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5j74r0$blc$2@easystreet03> References: <33565fcf.0@oit.umass.edu> Reply-To: tedm@portsoft.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39279 In <33565fcf.0@oit.umass.edu>, gp@wilde.oit.umass.edu (Gregory Pavelcak) writes: >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. >I assume that just means there's a file that the package expected to >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? > Sometimes. Whenever adding pkges this way, always do a "pkg_add -n pkg" first to see what dependency packages might be needed, then add them first. Read the man pages on pkg_add.