Subject: Re: Previously made packages won't get installed!
To: Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/15/2002 17:20:16
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Sung Nae Cho wrote:

> I have been using NetBSD-1.5ZA with XFree86 4.2.  I wanted to reoreganize
> my partition, therefore, reinstalled NetBSD-1.5ZA.  However, when I try to
> install KDE-2.2.2.tgz package that was made won't install!  When I do
> pkg_add kde-2.2.2.tgz, NetBSD seems to go through all the installation
> processes, showing the verbose etc.  But, when it's done, nothing got
> installed!  I have been having trouble with.  I've tried to add

I wonder if its getting installed somewhere else. (I am not sure if by
default the kde is installed to /usr/X11R6/ or /usr/pkg/.) Maybe watch
fstat(1) while its doing it to see where.

Does pkg_info or /var/db/pkg indicate that they're installed?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/