Marc Ravensbergen wrote: > Hi, is there any way I can find out the entire list of files (and > dependencies) needed before installing a given package? Let's say I want > to add "wget" to openbsd. I export the PKG_PATH to the appropriate > mirror, then type "pkg_add wget". This will do the installation of wget > and all dependencies, but I would like to know before the actual > installation what files are needed (if possible of course). > > My reason for this is so that I can generate a complete list of files > needed to download for a given program, run over to a computer with high > speed, download, run back to my computer, dump the files in the correct > directory (/var/db/pkg) and then install the package. > > In this case, wget is very small, but what about Gnome, KDE... > > I am thinking of the feature in Synaptic that lets you generate an > installation script; all the files and dependencies needed for a given > package are then saved to a text file as a script. > > If this is possible, can somebody let me know? > Thanks, > Marc > Hello, Yes,try using for example: pkg_add -n wget
Kind regards Didier
