On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Chris Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > I been trying to install firefox and seems like regex doesn't work > with pkg_add when I look for the package; pkg_add -iv firefox or > pkg_add -iv "*firefox*" doesn't install anything. > > I have to ftp to the package directory and find out the exact name of > the firefox package and then do pkg_add in order to install it. > > Also noticed things are different with mutt. If I do pkg_add -iv mutt, > I get a list to choose from. > > Is there any easy way around installing firefox or packages whose > names are not so obvious? >
pkg_add looks for mutt-*.tgz in $PKG_PATH. It's not meant to take a regex. If you want to explore the available packages use pkg_mgr (pkg_add -v pkg_mgr), install the ports tree and use "make search key=" (awkward but works), use http://openports.se or just load up your mirror in a browser and look. Firefox is mozilla-firefox, or firefox35 (so firefox doesn't find anything because firefox-* doesn't exist, only firefox35-*). -Nick _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
