FreeBSD pkg_add
A utility for installing software package distributions. This uses packages, not ports.
Download package from FreeBSD mirrors
pkg_add -r bash
Install package list from stdin
echo bash | pkg_add -
Ignore dependencies
pkg_add --no-deps bash pkg_add -i bash
Perform a dry run
pkg_add --dry-run bash pkg_add -n bash
OpenBSD pkg_add
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.
export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`uname -p`
Install a package
pkg_add bash
Do a dry-run of an installation
pkg_add -n rsync
