On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:01:04PM +1100, Chris Henderson 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? > > Thanks.
I download the index.txt file, grep the file I'm looking for, then copy and paste into my pkg_add command. I have to be on an linux box right now, so can't show the grep command and response :( Mike > _______________________________________________ > Openbsd-newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
