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Installed OpenBSD for the first time ..... Some questions
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I have installed OpenBSD under a VirtualBox VM. Since my mainboard has an onboard Nvidia GPU I can't install OpenBSD directly. By default OpenBSD didn't detect my screen resolution under VirtualBox so I had to do some tweaking. http://www.h-i-r.net/2009/11/virtual...ution-for.html Issue 1 To save a default repo. I added the following to the .profile file both on my user folder and the root folder but still every time try I to install a package I get "Not found" Code:
PKG_PATH=ftp://mymirror export PKG_PATH Is there anything else I need to do ? Issue 2 As you know VirtualBox has no guest additions for OpenBSD so the vbox shared folder doesn't work. What will be best way to share files between the guest and host ? I wish there was a Live OpenBSD environment available. So that I can test my hardware. |
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Re: issue 1 : PKG_PATH
You can check whether the PKG_PATH has been set with the following: Code:
In those cases you need to add the following to the .Xdefaults Code:
XTerm*loginShell:true
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Please also tell about how to keep the system up to date.
I mean not only the packages that I have installed but also the base. Under PC-BSD I get updates for both the installed packages and base. When a base update is installed a new entry is added to the Grub menu. I found info only about upgrades from one release to the next. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade55.html |
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My old, out of date live media can be found here, still. Instructions for installing onto a USB stick can be found in FAQ 14.17.3.OpenBSD gets a new release twice per year. The next release will be on November 1. Only the most recent two releases are supported and maintained, so users should upgrade at least once per year. Upgrades are only supported from release to release, so if you've missed one (or more) you must still upgrade in sequence. Each release is published with an Upgrade Guide, which provides step by step instructions for local or remote upgrades. While the upgrade process is mechanically the same each time, architectural differences from release to release sometimes require additional steps. After upgrading the system, 3rd party packages are easily updated by revising $PKG_PATH if the environment variable is used, and then issuing: # pkg_add -u Between releases, the Project publishes errata on its website, which are in the form of source code patches plus instructions. In addition, the -stable flavor of the OS includes all published errata patches as well as any other patches which do not warrant publication as errata. |
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My specs :
AMD Athlon 64 X 2 5600 + RAM : 2 GB Nvidia 6150 SE I tried searching LXDE in OpenBSD repos but didn't find it so I had to install XFCE. Since there is no guest additions available, therefore no acceleration the VM was very unstable making PCBSD (host) to hang. I had allocated some 800 MB of ram to the VM. I was also facing a very strange issue. I was getting wrong username/password when trying to fetch mail with Claws-Mail. I was using the exact same configuration which I use under PCBSD. Also, there is this problem of very old packages which makes using the browsers namely Firefox and Chromium quite problematic. Each time I visited the Chromium extensions site I got "Something went wrong" error. People complaining about this issue in the Google forums are advised to upgrade their browser. The only problem that I faced with Firefox is that the latest version of the LastPass plugin doesn't display any saved passwords but this is not an OpenBSD specific issue. That plugin doesn't work on any *BSD. I guess I will wait until I upgrade my hardware. This time I will go for an all Intel configuration but frankly even then I will have to dual boot OpenBSD and PCBSD. |
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The term used by the Project is mirrors, rather than repos/repositories.
LXDE has not been ported to OpenBSD. Two of lxde.org's applications have been ported and are available: gpicview and wmconfig. There may be others but I just did a quick search. Quote:
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If there are significant security/stability problems with 3rd party products, -stable ports may be developed, but the Project does not build -stable packages in these cases ... it does not have the resources to do so. Users who run -stable (or who run -release, or -release+errata) can build packages from these ports, if they have the skills to do so. A third party commercial company, mtier.org, builds -stable systems and -stable packages, as a free service. If you must always have applications with the largest version numbers, you can run -current, which is the development branch of the OS. Port upgrads are part of the development cycle. The Project does build "snapshot packages" from time to time for the popular architectures, but these are not built at the same time or with the same level of -current found in snapshots of the OS. The snapshots are built by different teams than the package builders, on different hardware. So, from time to time, -current users must build ports themselves, in order to ensure synchronicity. For more on the development cycle and the flavors of OpenBSD, see FAQ 5.1 Last edited by jggimi; 20th October 2014 at 02:58 AM. Reason: clarity |
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