[nmglug] OpenBSD installed.....now what???

Josh Gentry jgentry at swcp.com
Sun Nov 14 07:20:34 PST 2004


On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:38:55PM -0700, Jason Davis wrote:

> Im no BSD guy .... but i think you just cd in into the ports dir , go
> into the subdir you need ... i.e. if you wanted to install vim , it
> might look something like this....
> 
> cd /usr/ports/editors/vi
> 
> then..
> make
> make install
> 
> ... I think :p good luck There is also some sort of command to update
> your ports list i would assume ... might want to run that first.
> 

What he said, except it can be a frustrating way to look, sometimes.  
You can find lists of the ports available on the web.  Here is OpenBSD 
documentation of the ports.

http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html

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