On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:32:40PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:05:57 -0500 Rick Voland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Scott Bennett wrote:
> >>      I need a functioning version of acroread version 7 for my 6.1 system
> >> "pkg_add -r acroread7" does not find a package.  "portinstall acroread7"
> >> fails initially on an error return from a brandelf command, as it should,
> >> because the brandelf is being applied to a shell script rather than to an
> >> executable binary.
> >>       Does anyone on this list know where to find a version that will
> >> install and run correctly?
> >> 
> >
> >Did you try "pkg_add -r print/acroread7" or "portinstall print/acroread7" ?
> >
>      I hadn't put the "print/" into the commands, no, but that was what the
> commands seemed to be looking at anyway.  But here:
> 
> Script started on Fri Mar 30 15:20:54 2007
> hellas# pkg_add -r print/acroread7
> Error: FTP Unable to get 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/print/acroread7.tbz:
>  File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> pkg_add: unable to fetch 
> 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/Latest/print/acroread7.tbz'
>  by URL

We're prohibited from distributing an acroread package by the license
terms imposed by Adobe.  However, building from a port is expected to
work (on 6.2 at least), so please give an exact transcript of your
error.

Kris

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