OpenBSD doesn't contain metapackages. There's no single package that installs all of XFCE for you. Install the necessary components and applications from the x11/xfce4 category. (http://ports.openbsd.nu/x11/xfce4) Here's a "tutorial" on bsdforums that will help by detailing what to install to obtain the theoretically lightest possible XFCE installation. [ http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47695]
Installing the ports tree is a convenient way to browse what software OpenBSD has available to install. ports.openbsd.nu is a very good resource, as well. On Jan 7, 2008 10:33 AM, Russell Gadd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
