Re: problem installing pkg_add from ftp

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Huub <huubvanniekerk%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 04:49:39 +0000, Huub wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Using NetBSD 5.0.2 on amd64, I'm trying to install packages. According
>> to the manual, deps should be auto installed when PATH and PKG_PATH are
>> set. Using bash, PKG_PATH is set to ".../amd64/5.0.2_2010Q4/All". Yet,
>> pkg_add says that the package is unavailable. Then I see that amd64 is
>> same as x86_64, but setting PKG_PATH to that doesn't work either. Am I
>> doing something wrong?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Addition: this is the full PKG_PATH:
>
> bash-4.1# echo $PKG_PATH
> ftp://ftp.nl.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/current-packages/NetBSD/
> amd64/5.0.2_2010Q4/All
>
>

Try something more like this:

http://ftp.nl.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/current-packages/x86_64/5.0.2_2010Q4/All/