>On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
>
>>
>> Ok, now I have already downloaded the package "addnerd-1.6" from the ftp
>> site. The question now arises: Where should I put it for this installation
>> scheme to work?
>
mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
>put the addnerd-1.6.tgz file anywhere (don't extract it, just put it on
>the disk), and do
>
>pkg_add addnerd-1.6.tgz
>
>and the program pkg_add (which you found the source to in usr.sbin) will
>extract and register the installation.

Ok, I did that (cpin'd addnerd-1.6.tgz onto the disk under /)
and typed
pkg_add addnerd-1.6.tgz

and it replied:

pkg_add: Database-dir /var/db/pkg cannot be generated, aborting.

but I checked, and /var/db/pkg is there, but empty. I tried deleting pkg
and tried again, with the same result.

Dan Killoran

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