Install package from local file

[Marcus Karlsson]

I don't think that was the problem because the file was downloaded  
but the download interrupted before it completed.

Marcus

On 9 maj 2007, at 13.17, Jeff Adams wrote:

> I had a similar problem, in my case it was a firewall
> issue.  I'm not sure exactly what port does, but it
> appears to use FTP rather than HTTP downloads?  And
> the browser will do HTTP downloads.  FTP in passive
> mode will connect to some random port (it's like
> 1000-2000 or something) on the server, which means
> your firewall has to allow outgoing connections to any
> of those possible ports.
>
> The easiest thing is to allow outgoing connections to
> any port (which isn't that dangerous, but my normal
> firewall setup is very restrictive) do your port
> installs, then restore your normal firewall settings.
>
> Jeff
>
> --- Marcus Karlsson <karlsson at aletes.se> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm trying to install tetex, but when ports try to
>> fetch it the
>> download is somehow interrupted and it tries the
>> other download
>> locations that also fails the same way. I can
>> however download the
>> file from within Safari or any other web browser
>> from the same
>> servers that ports tried. Can I let ports use the
>> file I manually
>> downloaded instead of trying to download it?
>>
>> Marcus