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Salih's Blog: May 2011
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011. FreeBSD pkg add error: Syntax error, Command not found. Today I had a problem while installing cvsup package in my FreeBSD development system. pkg add was constantly failing to fetch files from the remote repository. Here is the error message that I was getting. Pkg add -r cvsup. Error: Unable to get ftp:/ ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/Latest/cvsup.tbz. Syntax error, command unrecognized. Tried setting the passive mode ftp with . Pkg add -rv cvsup.