====== FreeBSD pkg_add ======

  * [[FreeBSD]]
  * [[FreeBSD Packages]]

A utility for installing software package distributions.  This uses **packages**, not **ports**.

== Download package from FreeBSD mirrors ==

<code>
pkg_add -r bash
</code>

== Install package list from stdin ==

<code>
echo bash | pkg_add -
</code>

== Ignore dependencies ==

<code>
pkg_add --no-deps bash
pkg_add -i bash
</code>

== Perform a dry run ==

<code>
pkg_add --dry-run bash
pkg_add -n bash
</code>

====== OpenBSD pkg_add ======

  * [[OpenBSD]]
  * [[pkg_info]]
  * [[pkg_delete]]
  * [[pkg_mgr]]

== Setup package repository ==

Before you can install anything from OpenBSD's FTP repos, set the ''PKG_PATH'' variable. You can set it in ''.profile'' to make life easy.

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

== Install a package ==

<code>
pkg_add bash
</code>

== Do a dry-run of an installation ==

<code>
pkg_add -n rsync
</code>