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How to make a normal user can install package with pkg_add on FreeBSD?

pkg_add -r command fails with normal user with sudo. Downloading succeeds, but installation fails with this error message. Equal command executed successfully with root login.

%sudo pkg_add -r apache22
Password:
Error: Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/Latest/apache22.tbz: Syntax error, command unrecognized
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8.1-release/Latest/apache22.tbz' by URL
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Assume my username as eonil.

I added 

eonil ALL=(ALL) ALL

code as next of 

root ALL=(ALL) ALL

via visudo, and added the user to wheel group by

pw usermod eonil -G wheel

. But the user cannot install package with sudo pkg_add -r apache22. (not only the apache, any package.)

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Post the line you added to /etc/sudoers for this as well as log output of the failure when this command is run. – ErikA Feb 27 '11 at 5:37
@ErikA I added some more detail codes. Thanks for care. – Eonil Feb 27 '11 at 5:50
What happens when you try to run the pkg_add command via sudo? Please post any error messages. – ErikA Feb 27 '11 at 5:52
@ErikA I added error message I got. Thanks again :) – Eonil Feb 27 '11 at 5:57
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Problem in env vars.

Uncomment or add line in sudoers(run visudo command):

Defaults        env_keep += "PKG_PATH PKG_DBDIR PKG_TMPDIR TMPDIR PACKAGEROOT PACKAGESITE PKGDIR FTP_PASSIVE_MODE"
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Thanks. It's working now! – Eonil Feb 27 '11 at 6:55
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