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OpenBSD: Install Firefox Web Browser

by Vivek Gite on July 17, 2011 · 0 comments

How do I install Mozilla Firefox which is a free and open source web browser under OpenBSD operating systems?

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FreeBSD Install Applications

by Vivek Gite on March 19, 2008 · 0 comments

Q. How do I install applications under FreeBSD operating systems?

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OpenBSD Install MySQL Server

by Vivek Gite on October 3, 2007 · 7 comments

Q. How do I install and run MySQL version 5 database Server under OpenBSD UNIX operating system? A. OpenBSD has pkg_add command. It is used to install packages created with the pkg_create command. Selected packages containing pre-compiled applications from the /usr/ports tree can be found on the OpenBSD FTP site or on the official OpenBSD [...]

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FreeBSD install Perl language

by Vivek Gite on August 5, 2007 · 3 comments

Q. I need Perl programming language to run scripts. How do I install perl on FreeBSD operating system? A. Practical Extraction and Report Language or Perl can be installed using FreeBSD ports or binary package system. Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports [...]

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OpenBSD install BASH shell package

by Vivek Gite on June 18, 2007 · 3 comments

Q. How do I install BASH shell package under OpenBSD? A. You need to use the pkg_add command to install packages BASH is available as binary packages over internet or from OpenBSD CD. Login as root user. Use su – or sudo. Next setup PKG_PATH using export command. You can make things really easy by [...]

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FreeBSD install VIM text editor

by Vivek Gite on May 9, 2007 · 2 comments

Q. Quick question – How do I install VIM text editor for my FreeBSD server? Currently it has old version of vi. I like vim as it is a highly configurable text editor and efficient one. A. VIM (Vi IMproved ) is not installed by default under FreeBSD. Vim is a text editor that is [...]

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