I waited about 5 minutes... there was no disk or network activity and it 
just seemed to hang. Does the pkg_add command eventually exit?

Thanks for your help!

-jwb

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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.
>
>