On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:39:15PM -0800, Joshua W. Biagio wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> I am fairly new to NetBSD and I recently tried my hand at installing and 
> configuring a NetBSD 3.0-RELEASE system. I wanted to use the binary 
> packages that have been built for the i386 port and noticed that when I 
> added the packages (say xfce4-4.2.3.2.tgz) with the command: 'pkg_add -v 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-2005Q4/NetBSD-3.0/i386/All/xfce4-4.2.3.2.tgz', 
> the packages seemed to install correctly but the pkg_add command never 
> seemed to return. The last output printed to the console was 'ftp> close'. 
> I had to hit Ctrl-C to get back to the prompt. This behavior seemed to 
> occur regardless of the package that I tried to install.

How much time did you wait ? For large package this can take some time.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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