On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 08:05:09AM -0200, Marcio David wrote:
> Hello everyone. I'm a software developer from Brazil and I've been using
> Linux for about 8 years and now I starting to play with some new toys, like
> FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I installed OpenBSD 4.6 on a quadcore intel machine,
> and now I'm trying to install some new softwares using pkg_add. I downloaded
> a few applications (like wget and wmii) and I was able to install it, but
> it's not a fun task, since I had to download all dependancys... Well, the
> pkg_add is working fine when I download the .tgz and install it localy, but
> I was not able to configure it to access the FTP server and download/install
> it from there.
>
> What I did was (as root):
> export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/packages/i386/
>
> And then:
> pkg_add -vi midori-0.1.7.tgz
>
> But I always get an error saying:
> ftp: No control connection for command
>
> I read all documentation about it, google-it and I was not to solve it yet.
> Any tips??
I'm not sure what Rod is getting at, but yes, there is most likely some
firewall blocking it. Perhaps you need to set ftp_proxy? (See ftp(1).)
You could also try HTTP...
Joachim
