On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, dev wrote: > Hello all. > > I had an old Sun sparc server and really wanted to install something > current and interesting on it. Something not Solaris/Oracle and > definately open source and not linux. Therefore I arrived at OpenBSD > and the install was trivial. Easy. I was very pleasantly surprised > by that. > > After install and first boot I was able to login via the console and > create my user account with the usual .ssh directory contents and then > ssh in no problem. Great stuff. Then I wanted to use wget to fetch > the sources to GNU make. I saw that I had no "wget" in my path or > anywhere that I could see. So I did some hunting about and landed on > pages that talked about pkg_add and the PKG_PATH environment variable. > Therefore I tried this : > > # > PKG_PATH=http://athena.caslab.queensu.ca/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/sparc64/
Since you installed 5.4 you cant use snapshots packages. Replace snapshots in the PKG_PATH with 5.4 and all should be ok. -moj > # export PKG_PATH > # pkg_add wget > Unknown element: @signer 55pkg in SCALAR(0x101b108e210), at > /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackingList.pm line 306, <$fh> line 3. > # > > Am I doing the correct things here or am I way way off base? I am very > familiar with Solaris and how to install packages there as well as the > Debian linux way of things. So just looking for pointers in case I am > just lost. > > dc
