1dnl $OpenBSD: packages,v 1.49 2016/09/02 12:17:32 tb Exp $ 2As complete as your OpenBSD system is, you may want to add any of several 3excellent third party software applications. There are several ways to do 4this. You can: 5 61) Use the OpenBSD ``package'' collection to grab a pre-compiled 7 and tested version of the application for your hardware. 8 92) Use the OpenBSD ``ports'' collection to automatically get any 10 needed source file, apply any required patches, create the 11 application, and install it for you. 12 133) Obtain the source code and build the application based 14 upon whatever installation procedures are provided with the 15 application. 16 17If you purchased the OpenBSD CD-ROM set you already have a few popular 18``packages'', and the ``ports'' collection. 19 20Instructions for installing applications from the various sources using 21the different installation methods follow. 22 23You should also refer to the packages(7) manual page. 24 25Installing applications from the CD-ROM package collection: 26 27 The OpenBSD CD-ROM ships with the most commonly installed third-party 28 applications pre-built for various hardware architectures. Limited 29 disk space on the CD-ROM unfortunately limits the number of such 30 packages. Check the directory OSREV/packages/MACHINE_ARCH to see which 31 packages are available for your hardware architecture. That directory 32 will be on the same CD-ROM containing the OS installation files for 33 your architecture. 34 35 To install one or more of these packages you must: 36 1) become the superuser (root). 37 2) mount the appropriate CD-ROM. 38 3) use the ``pkg_add'' command to install the software. 39 40 Example (in which we use su(1) to get superuser privileges, thus 41 you have to be in group "wheel", see the manual page for su(1)). 42 43 $ su 44 Password: <enter your root password> 45 # mkdir -p /cdrom 46 # mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom 47 {:-#-:} pkg_add /cdrom/OSREV/packages/MACHINE_ARCH/<package-name> 48 # <add more packages if desired> 49 # umount /cdrom 50 51 Package names are usually the application name and version 52 with .tgz appended, e.g. bzip2-1.0.6p0.tgz 53 54Installing applications from the ftp.OpenBSD.org package collection: 55 56 All available packages for your architecture have been placed on 57 ftp.OpenBSD.org in the directory pub/OpenBSD/OSREV/packages/MACHINE_ARCH/ 58 You may want to peruse this to see what packages are available. The 59 packages are also on the OpenBSD mirror sites. See 60 61 https://www.OpenBSD.org/ftp.html 62 63 for a list of current mirror sites. 64 65 Installation of a package is very easy. 66 1) become the superuser (root) 67 2) use the ``pkg_add'' command to install the software 68 69 ``pkg_add'' is smart enough to know how to download the software 70 from the OpenBSD HTTP server. Example: 71 72 $ su 73 Password: <enter your root password> 74 # pkg_add \ 75 http://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/{:--:}OSREV/packages/MACHINE_ARCH/emacs-21.4p32.tgz 76 77Installing applications from the CD-ROM ports collection: 78 79 The CD-ROM ``ports'' collection is a set of Makefiles, patches, 80 and other files used to control the building and installation 81 of an application from source files. 82 83 Creating an application from sources can require a lot of 84 disk space, sometimes 50 megabytes or more. The first step is 85 to determine which of your disks has enough room. Once you've 86 made this determination, read the file PORTS located on the 87 CD-ROM which contains the ports tree. 88 89 To build an application you must: 90 91 1) become the superuser (root) 92 2) have network access, or obtain the actual source files by 93 some other means. 94 3) cd to the ports directory containing the port you wish 95 to build. To build samba, for example, where you'd 96 previously copied the ports files into the /usr/ports 97 directory: cd /usr/ports/net/samba 98 4) make 99 5) make install 100 6) make clean 101 102Installing applications from the OpenBSD ports collection: 103 104 See https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Ports for current 105 instructions on obtaining and installing OpenBSD ports. 106 107 You should also refer to the ports(7) manual page. 108 109Installing other applications: 110 111 If an OpenBSD package or port does not exist for an application 112 you're pretty much on your own. The first thing to do is ask 113 <ports@OpenBSD.org> if anyone is working on a port -- there may 114 be one in progress. If no such port exists, you might want to 115 look at the FreeBSD ports or NetBSD pkgsrc for inspiration. 116 117 If you can't find an existing port, try to make your own and 118 feed it back to OpenBSD. That's how our ports collection grows. 119 Some details can be found in the OpenBSD Porter's Handbook at 120 https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ 121 with more help coming from the mailing list, <ports@OpenBSD.org>. 122