On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:33:22PM +0000, Russell Gadd wrote: > I am new to OpenBSD and I am not sure what is the correct way to find > packages. > > For example I have tried to install the xfce window manager, and at first I > looked at the list of files in the packages list and there were a lot of > files with xfce in the name / description. I looked for one which said > something like "this is the main package for xfce4" so that installing that > and all dependencies would do the job, but couldn't find such a file. I > resorted to looking for xfce in the INDEX and using all files where this > was mentioned, i.e. forming a list with > grep "xfce" INDEX | cut -d "|" -f 1 | sed 's/$/.tgz/g' > > /tmpdir/xfce4pkglist > > then > pkg_add `cat /tmpdir/xfce4pkglist` > > I realise that for such a package there would be some parts which were > optional, so needed to be separated out, but I thought there must be a more > reliable way to determine which files to include. > > Is there a better way to do this?
Normally just looking at the packages list will work fine. Xfce4 is tricky, as I found out not long ago. Look for 'xfwm' packages for the main ones. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
