On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Dominic Jones wrote:

> 	Hi. I recently tried to install Abiword on NetBSD 1.4.1 on i386
> using pkgsrc (sup'd two days ago). It gave me an error message indicating
> that I needed to update pkg_install to the 2/2/2000 version. I did so
> (make deinstall;make install) but am still getting the same message. It
> appears to be unable to find the update date (something to the effect of
> 2/2/2000 needed, yours is .) Any suggestions? I'm having the same problem
> installing GTK (same cause, perhaps - Abiword depends on GTK?).


cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install
make clean
now update the files in this directory from
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/
now do
make install

-Dan