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author | Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-04-06 07:52:47 +0000 |
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committer | Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-04-06 07:52:47 +0000 |
commit | 7fbb059ed91627d17cec871a170bdc2504e391a8 (patch) | |
tree | 9a044834399d80a582d3e4dc4ad457182818f909 /distrib/notes/packages | |
parent | 8f7ffcd27a1cabbee88c8ae4d1deed5f3625f98b (diff) |
grammar, spelling, and some extra content
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-rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/packages | 28 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/packages b/distrib/notes/packages index f38936e2188..816cbc4d639 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/packages +++ b/distrib/notes/packages @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -As complete as your OpenBSD system you still may want to add any of -several excellent third party software application. There are several +As complete as your OpenBSD system is you still may want to add any of +several excellent third party software applications. There are several ways to do this. You can -1) Obtaining the source code and building the application based +1) Obtain the source code and building the application based upon whatever installation procedures are provided with the application. @@ -28,11 +28,15 @@ Installing applications from the the CD-ROM package collection: for various hardware architectures. The applications and supported architectures are: - i386 sparc m68k alpha mips - emacs-20.2 yes yes yes yes no - bash-2.01.1 yes yes yes yes no - tcsh-6.07.02 yes yes yes yes no - pine-3.96 yes yes yes yes no + i386 sparc amiga m68k alpha mips + emacs-20.2 yes yes no yes yes no + bash-2.01.1 yes yes no yes yes no + tcsh-6.07.02 yes yes no yes yes no + pine-3.96 yes yes no yes yes no + + (the amiga is treated specially due to its 8k hardware pagesize + aka NBPG, it's very well possible amiga will run the other m68k + arch's binaries, but we make no guarantees at this point). To install one or more of these packages you must 1) become the superuser (root) @@ -75,7 +79,7 @@ Installing applications from the ftp.openbsd.org package collection: Password: <enter your root password> # pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/emacs-20.2.tgz - Note: there are both USA and INTERNATIONAL versoins of ssh and + Note: there are both USA and INTERNATIONAL versions of ssh and pgp on the ftp server. Be sure to grab the correct version. The USA versions, ssh-usa-1.2.22.tgz and pgp-usa-2.6.3.tgz, use RSAREF, a legal requirement for use within the United States. @@ -100,9 +104,9 @@ Installing other applications: you're pretty much on your own. The first thing to do is ask ports@openbsd.org if anyone is working on a port -- there may be one in progress. If no luck there you may try the FreeBSD - ports collection. If you are on an i386 based machine it is - quite possible that the FreeBSD port, if one exists, will work - for you, + ports or NetBSD package collection. If you are on an i386 based + machine it is quite possible that the FreeBSD port, if one exists, + will work for you. If you can't find an existing port try to make your own and feed it back to OpenBSD. That's how our ports collection grows. |