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As complete as your OpenBSD system you still may want to add any of
several excellent third party software application. There are several
ways to do this. You can
1) Obtaining the source code and building the application based
upon whatever installation procedures are provided with the
application.
2) Use the OpenBSD ``ports'' collection to automatically get any
needed source file, apply any required patches, create the
application, and install it for you.
3) Use the OpenBSD ``package'' collection to grab a pre-compiled
and tested version of the application for your hardware.
If you purchased the OpenBSD CD-ROM you already have several popular
``packages'', the ``ports'' collection, and most of the ``ports''
source file releases.
Instructions for installing applications from various sources using
the various methods follow. If emacs is to be installed it should
be installed first as it creates the ``info'' directory file that
may be modified by other applications.
Installing applications from the the CD-ROM package collection:
The OpenBSD CD-ROM ships with applications pre-built
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
To install one or more of these packages you must
1) become the superuser (root)
2) mount CD-ROM number 2
3) use the ``pkg_add'' command to install the software
Example:
$ su
Password: <enter your root password>
# mkdir -p /cdrom
# mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom
# pkg_add /cdrom/packages/<arch>/<package-name>
# <add more packages if desired>
# umount /cdrom
Your hardware architecture can be determined by issing
the command ``arch''. The response will be something like
``OpenBSD.sparc''. ``sparc'' is the architecture.
Package names are usually the application name and version
with .tgz appended, e.g. pine-3.96.tgz
Installing applications from the ftp.openbsd.org package collection:
The above packages, and others, have been placed on
ftp.openbsd.org in the directory pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/<arch>/
where <arch> is the supported hardware architecture. You may
want to peruse the directory for your architecture to see what
packages are available.
Installation of a package is very easy.
1) become the superuser (root)
2) use the ``pkg_add'' command to install the software
``pkg_add'' is smart enough to know how to download the software
from the OpenBSD ftp server. Example:
$ su
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
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.
Installing applications from the CD-ROM ports collection:
The CD-ROM ``ports'' collection is a set of Makefiles, patches,
and other files used to control the building and installation
of an application from source files. The source files come
from archives which are also, for the most part, on the
OpenBSD CD-ROM.
;;; <finish this>
Installing applications from the OpenBSD ports collection:
;;; <finish this>
Installing other applications:
If an OpenBSD package or port does not exist for an application
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,
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.
Some details can be found at http://www.openbsd.org/porting.html
with more help coming from the mailing list, ports@openbsd.org.
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