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The ports & packages collection does NOT go through the thorough security audit that OpenBSD follows.

The ports & packages collection does NOT go through the thorough security audit that the OpenBSD

base system does.

Although we strive to keep the quality of the packages collection high, we just do not have enough human

resources to ensure the same level of robustness and security.

The port collection, originally borrowed from

<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a> and significantly rewritten, fills this gap.

The concept is to have, for each third-party software, a Makefile that

controls

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Packages are the binary equivalent of ports. A compiled port becomes

a package that can be registered into the system using

a package that can be easily installed and registered into the system using

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<h3><a name="Get">Getting Packages</a></h3>

A large collection of pre-compiled packages is available for most common

architectures.

architectures:

<ul>

<li>On the CD-Rom (that you can order <a href="orders.html">here</a>),

<li>On the <a href=ftp.html>ftp mirror sites</a>.

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set PKG_PATH to that repository URL, in order to grab dependencies.

For instance, to install the Gimp package for the 4.4 release on an i386

For instance, to install the Gimp package (and any needed dependencies)

machine off the ftp site (including dependencies), do:

for the 4.4 release on an i386 machine from the ftp site, do:

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