On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:34:27AM -0700, satimis wrote: > Hi folks, > > I tried the whole day without a breakthrough. > > following is only one of the examples tried on my test, > > I suspect whether the packages on following site are suitable for my > application. Follow is only an example of the tests I tried. > > > # uname -a > OpenBSD home.openbsd101 4.0 GENERIC#690 amd64 > > > # pkg_add -v > ftp://ftp.it.net.au/mirrors/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/amd64/nano-1.2.5.tgz > Can't find > ftp://ftp.it.net.au/mirrors/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/amd64/nano-1.2.5.tgz > /usr/sbin/pkg_add: > ftp://ftp.it.net.au/mirrors/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/amd64/nano-1.2.5.tgz:Fatal > error > > > # export PKG_PATH=ftp.it.net.au/mirrors/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/amd64/ ^^^ That isn't going to work (add ftp://).
> (no complaint) > # pkg_add -v nano-1.2.5tgz > Can't find nano-1.2.5.tgz > /usr/sbin/pkg_add: nano-1.2.5.tgz:Fatal error > > > # export > PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.it.net.au/mirrors/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/amd64/ > (no complaint) Did you perhaps forget to add ftp:// again? That would give the error you noted... > # pkg_add -v nano-1.2.5.tgz > same result > > > nano-1.2.5.tgz is on; > ftp://ftp.it.net.au/mirrors/OpenBSD/4.0/packages/amd64/ Joachim
