Re: installing packages

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Timothy Grison <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed the 5.1 version a few days ago on an amd64
> architecture. However, being new to the unix system of commands, I have not so
> far been able to install packages such as mozilla firefox.
> I looked through
> the manual and tried to make things easy by using the PKG_PATH environment
> variable. To fetch the requested package, I therefore first typed:
> $ export
> PKG_PATH=/mnt/cdrom/5.1/packages/`machine -a`/
> and then:
> pkg_add -v
> mozilla-firefox
> But the response I get at that point is the following:
> file:/mnt/cdrom/5.1/packages/amd64/ is empty
> Can't find mozilla-firefox
> How
> might I get around this?
>
> Thank you,
> Timothy Grison
>

Hi Timothy,

First off, this question would probably be more appropriate for the misc@ list.

To use the instructions in FAQ 15.2.2, you must first mount(8) your CD
on /mnt/cdrom
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/cdrom
$ sudo mount /dev/cd0a /mnt/cdrom

or something like that, if you have trouble read the mount(8) and
sudo(8) man pages:
$ man mount

I find it much easier to use an ftp mirror.  That way you don't need
to mount a CD every time you want to install a new package, and there
are many more packages on the ftp mirrors than on the CD.

Last but not least, if you use "`uname -r`" in place of "5.1" you
don't have to touch your PKG_PATH  in ~/.profile when you upgrade to
"5.2".
$ export PKG_PATH=ftp://your.ftp.mirror/pub/OpenBSD/`uname
-r`/packages/`machine -a`/


-Barry