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I recently installed OpenBSD and went to install a few packages. I'm accustomed to FreeBSD's pkg command, and OpenBSD's pkg_add isn't as friendly.

• To install the nginx package for the current release and architecture, the long form is:
  

  pkg_add http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`uname -p`/nginx-1.10.1.tgz
  

• To make pkg_add a little more intuitive, set the PKG_PATH environment variable:
  

  export PKG_PATH=http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`uname -p`/
  

  • Now install the screen package, in short form:
    

    pkg_add screen
    

• To make the PKG_PATH permanent, add it to .profile:
  

  echo 'export PKG_PATH=http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`uname -p`/' >> ~/.profile
  

• Updating packages using pkg_add:
  

  pkg_add -vui
  

Resources¶

• https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html
• http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/04/youve-installed-it-now-what-packages.html
• http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/