Thanks Josh, I was reading that faq and did adhere to warning of not building from ports. I am new to OBSD and I don't want to brake my working install. I'm able to get the packages from the OBSD.org site with no problem except, that they would not install because it wants to put them in the wd0a which does not have enough space. I basically selected the default sizes when I installed my OBSD. Is there any way to have the packages install on a wd0x drive that has space and still work the way they are supposed to?
Kind Regards, Ramon -----Original Message----- From: Josh Grosse [mailto:j...@jggimi.homeip.net] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 12:51 PM To: Support Team Cc: ports@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD 4.4 does not have a /usr/ports directory, is it broken? On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:36:37 -0500, Support Team wrote > Greetings, > > I have installed OBSD4.4 with all packages. The install went > flawless I thought, I never received any errors. I'm trying > > To follow your document to add packages but I don't have a ports directory > under /usr/. Your help in this matter is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Ramon > > Miami Fl > > r...@hyteksolutions.com FAQ 15 describes the Ports and Packages system. The ports tree (which you do not have installed) is used for building packages. The only time you should ever need to use the ports tree is to build a package when a package is not available, such as when: * a package is not available due to licensing * a unique "flavor" of a package is not available Otherwise, use packages. To install packages, you 1) set the PKG_PATH variable to point to the right directory at your nearest mirror, e.g.: # export PKG_PATH=ftp://<your nearest mirror>/pub/OpenBSD/<your release>/<your arch>/ Then you use the pkg_add(8) program to install packages. Please re-read FAQ 15, paying particular attention to all of section 15.2, and the discussion in 15.4.6.
