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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