Re: [Pkgutil-users] Problems Using Pkgutil
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From: Peter B. <bon...@op...> - 2011-08-02 18:27:20
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On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Fred Strickland <fre...@ho...> wrote: > Good morning everyone, > > I just joined this list, because the resources for helping new people are > broken: Welcome to the list and thanks for telling us about the broken links. Note though that pkgutil has its own web site (pkgutil.net), I hope instructions there are good enough to get started. There's also a users list for OpenCSW that you may be interested in (https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users). > The link for a quckstart cocumentation page from www.opencsw.org/support > is broken. > The link for the user guide from the same URL is broken. I have fixed both of these now. > I looked at the CSW mail list archieve for July 2011 and I see some > individuals had problems with the catalog. Their issue is not same as > mine. I receive the following message whenever I execute most options from > pkgutil: > > # pkgutil -i firefox > Solving needed dependencies ... > Package firefox not in catalog. Exiting. Looking below I think you probably don't have a catalog at all. > When I try to obtain the latest catalog, I receive this error message: > > # /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U > => Fetching new catalog and descriptions > (http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current/sparc/5.10) if > available ... > --09:41:27-- > http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current/sparc/5.10/catalog > => > `/var/opt/csw/pkgutil/catalog.ftp.math.purdue.edu_mirrors_opencsw.org_current_sparc_5.10' > Resolving ftp.math.purdue.edu... failed: node name or service name not > known. > Fetching of catalog failed. > # That mirror works for me, I think you're having an issue with DNS and/or proxy. Can you resolve ftp.math.purdue.edu? # dig ftp.math.purdue.edu Pkgutil uses wget for fetching files so if you can fetch the catalog manually with, in this case, "wget http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/opencsw.org/current/sparc/5.10/catalog", pkgutil should be able to do it as well. /peter |