Error making gnome-cups-manager

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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 23:06:11 +0000
petrasl <petraslll at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:07:59 HST
> knowtree at aloha.com wrote:
> 
> > I have decided to switch from old lpr style printing to CUPS (on FreeBSD
> > 4.9-STABLE) and found a helpful looking port,
> > /usr/ports/print/gnome-cups-manager. The build works, but "make install"
> > triggers a dependency that fails:
> > 
> > # make install
> > ===>  Installing for gnome-cups-manager-0.28,1
> > ===>   gnome-cups-manager-0.28,1 depends on executable: gnomesu - not found
> > ===>    Verifying install for gnomesu in /usr/ports/security/libgnomesu
> > => libgnomesu-0.9.7.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
> > => Attempting to fetch from http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/libgnomesu/.
> > fetch: http://members1.chello.nl/~h.lai/libgnomesu/libgnomesu-0.9.7.tar.gz:
> > Moved Permanently
> > => Attempting to fetch from
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/.
> > fetch:
> > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/libgnomesu-0.9.7.tar.gz:
> > File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
> > => Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
> > => port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again.
> 
> As it says, fetch libgnomesu-0.9.7.tar.gz manually

This worked, and the port built perfectly. Thanks, petrasl.

I got the tarball from the author's web site, with my web browser. I could
not access the site with anonymous ftp. Perhaps that is why fetch did not
work. But that does not explain why the file is missing from
ftp.FreeBSD.org. I looked, and it is not there.

Gary Dunn
Honolulu
knowtree at aloha.com