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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing Packages, Help! Date: 27 Apr 1997 17:53:52 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 44 Sender: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@ab223.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <5k03rg$b7c$2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970424121819.16241A-100000@garcia.efn.org> <5jql10$laq$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <slrn5m4uah.aat.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ab223.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: un1i X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970409; AIX 4.1] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39836 H. Eckert <ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de> wrote: > un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Philipp Mergenthaler): > > The reason is probably that DOS cuts name to its 8+3 character format, [...] > > Solution: copy the file from the dos partition to e.g. /tmp, rename it to > > its original name, and then run pkg_add. > Renaming isn't really neccessary at all if you have to resort to > manually running pkg_add anyway (because you can't access the > package from within the sysinstall menu). From the original article I had the impression that he uses dos to copy packages to a dos partition/floppy, then reboots with FreeBSD and tries to install them. And on my system (2.2-GAMMA) renaming is necessary, if an extension like ".tgz" has been cut off (which usually happens, when you store them on a dos partition/floppy): /tmp# ll total 76 drwxrwxrwt 3 bin bin 512 Apr 27 19:27 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 512 Mar 20 12:27 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11 Apr 26 22:26 .X0-lock drwxrwxrwx 2 root bin 512 Apr 26 22:26 .X11-unix -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 16950 Apr 27 19:27 a2ps-4.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 p bin 16950 Apr 27 19:26 a2ps-4.3.tgz /tmp# pkg_add a2ps-4.3 tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive. tar: Skipping to next file header... tar: only read 6710 bytes from archive /tmp/a2ps-4.3 Tar extract of /tmp/a2ps-4.3 failed! Unable to extract table of contents file from `/tmp/a2ps-4.3' - not a package?. /tmp# /tmp# pkg_add a2ps-4.3.tgz missing: ./man/skel (created) /tmp# which a2ps /usr/local/bin/a2ps /tmp# Bye, Philipp -- P. Mergenthaler, un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de | Wer halb gebildet, ist der Tel.: 0721/694532 | schoenste Narr. Klosterweg 28 / I609, 76131 Karlsruhe | (Weiss jemand, von wem das ist?) http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~un1i/ |