diff --git a/etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc b/etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc
index 569741310d..dc4ac94aff 100644
--- a/etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc
+++ b/etc/inc/pkg-utils.inc
@@ -567,21 +567,30 @@ function pkg_fetch_recursive($pkgname, $filename, $dependlevel = 0, $base_url =
 		if (isset($config['system']['pkg_nochecksig']))
 			$no_checksig = "--no-checksig";
 
-		exec("/usr/local/sbin/pbi_add " . $pkgstaging . " -f -v {$no_checksig} " . escapeshellarg($fetchto) . " 2>&1", $pkgaddout);
-		pkg_debug($pkgname . " " . print_r($pkgaddout, true) . "\npbi_add successfully completed.\n");
-		setup_library_paths();
-		exec("/usr/local/sbin/pbi_info " . escapeshellarg(preg_replace('/\.pbi$/','',$filename)) . " | /usr/bin/awk '/Prefix/ {print $2}'",$pbidir);
-		$pbidir = $pbidir[0];
-		$linkdirs = array('bin','sbin');
-		foreach($linkdirs as $dir) {
-			if(is_dir("{$pbidir}/{$dir}")) {
+		exec("/usr/local/sbin/pbi_add " . $pkgstaging . " -f -v {$no_checksig} " . escapeshellarg($fetchto) . " 2>&1", $pkgaddout, $rc);
+		pkg_debug($pkgname . " " . print_r($pkgaddout, true) . "\n");
+		if ($rc == 0) {
+			setup_library_paths();
+			exec("/usr/local/sbin/pbi_info " . escapeshellarg(preg_replace('/\.pbi$/','',$filename)) . " | /usr/bin/awk '/Prefix/ {print $2}'",$pbidir);
+			$pbidir = $pbidir[0];
+			foreach(array('bin', 'sbin') as $dir) {
+				if(!is_dir("{$pbidir}/{$dir}"))
+					continue;
+
 				$files = scandir("{$pbidir}/{$dir}");
-				foreach($files as $f) {
-					if(!file_exists("/usr/local/{$dir}/{$f}")) {
-						symlink("{$pbidir}/{$dir}/{$f}","/usr/local/{$dir}/{$f}");
-					}
-				}
+				foreach($files as $f)
+					if(!file_exists("/usr/local/{$dir}/{$f}"))
+						@symlink("{$pbidir}/{$dir}/{$f}","/usr/local/{$dir}/{$f}");
 			}
+			pkg_debug("pbi_add successfully completed.\n");
+		} else {
+			if (is_array($pkgaddout))
+				foreach ($pkgaddout as $line)
+					$static_output .= " " . $line .= "\n";
+
+			update_output_window($static_output);
+			pkg_debug("pbi_add failed.\n");
+			return false;
 		}
 	}
 	return true;