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Old 5th September 2009
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Avoid 3rd party "how to" documents; they are usually:
  • out of date by the time you read them
  • written by newbies, who are justifiably proud of their achievements
  • written without taking the wide variety of architectures and circumstances into acount
  • may have poorly explained, misleading, or incorrect assumptions.
Note that in this case, the document is four years out of date. One of the many operational changes since the document you are trusting was originally written was the placement of the main gdm executable. (Hint: it isn't found in /usr/local/bin, it is stored elsewhere.) That change happened May 18, 2007, by the way.

Your most appropriate resource, st89, is the OpenBSD FAQ, followed by the OpenBSD man pages. I refer you to FAQ 15, on the ports/packages system, and to the man pages for pkg_add(1) and pkg_info(1). For the latter, I recommend the "-L" option, which will show you the list of files installed by any particular package.

The Project members, and the community of users, spend a lot of effort making sure the OS documentation is helpful and correct; they (and I) hope you will take advantage of it.
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