OpenBSD and FreeBSD resources » packages http://purebsd.com Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:01:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Packages http://purebsd.com/packages.html http://purebsd.com/packages.html#comments Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:36:11 +0000 admin http://purebsd.com/?p=63 What are packages?

Packages are the binary equivalent of the ports, prebuilt by the OpenBSD team for your convenience. Though there are far less prebuilt packages than there are ports available through the ports system in /usr/ports.

Installation of a package

If you don’t have them stored locally, packages can be found online in a directory on a FTP mirror site. Something like ftp-site/pub/OpenBSD/2.8/packages/i386/ for instance.

Installation from harddisk:

pkg_add tcsh-6.09.00.tgz

Of course, you could also install via the internet:

pkg_add ftp://ftp-site/url/tcsh-6.09.00-static.tgz

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