On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 OinkFreeBiker@att.net wrote:

> Details about my pkg_add error woes...
> 
> I am using NetBSD 1.5 from the latest and greatest Wasabi 
> 4-CDROM release.
> The package comes from the same set, PACKAGE RELEASE DISK 
> 1.
> 
> Here are some (perhaps most) of the dependencies which 
> fail either to "add" or "autoload". I don't know what any 
> of them are beyond the names.
> 
> Mesa>=3.2.1
> MesaLib-3.4
> glu-3.4
> glut-3.4
> jpeg-6.b
> tiff-*
> xpm-3.4k
> png>=1.0.6
> libungif-*
> kdelibs-1.1.2.tgz
> ncurses>=4.2
> kdebase-1.1.2.tgz
> kdemultimedia-1.1.2.tgz


do you see these packages in /cdrom/i386/All?

ie, 

ls /cdrom/i386/All/jpeg*

and verify that jpeg-6.b.tgz exists there.

> Some of those show up "failed!" more than once. I tried 
> to do pkg_add two separate ways, both from the su-ship 
> from within own user-ness...
> 
> : {40} chdr /cdrom/i386/All/
> : {41} pkg_add kde-1.1.2.tgz
> 
> ...and...
> 
> : {42} chdir /cdrom/i386/X11
> : {43} pkg_add kde-1.1.2.tgz
> 
> Probably there is something fundamental that I am doing 
> wrong. This is on an IBM ThinkPad 380Z but without any 
> PCMCIA devices yet inserted. And nothing is plugged into 
> the USB. This is the machine I purchased used from Peter 
> Seebach, who said that NetBSD ran fine on it. So the 
> machine is okay. It must be me. But I don't have a clue 
> what.
> 
> So next I tried this...
> 
> : {44} mkdir /pkg
> : {45} mkdir /pkg/All
> : {46} cp /cdrom/i386/x11/*.* /pkg/
> : {47} chdir /pkg
> : {48} add_pkg /pkg/kde-1.1.2.tgz
> 
> ...and got all the same "add of...failed!" messages. I'm 
> kinda stumped. Any clues?
> 
> 
> Alas and alak,
> 
> Gan Starling
> Kalamazoo MI
>