On January 7, 2008 09:33:22 am 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? > > Russell
Did you look at http://www.openbsd.org/4.2_packages/i386.html ? -- Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng. President & CEO ForeTell Technologies Limited 59 Flamingo Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada R3J 0X6 Phone: +1 204 885 9535, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
