Sup guys, just a short thread this evening.

I wanted to share with you a little wrapper I've written for pkg_info & pkg_add that allows the user to search for and install packages in OpenBSD in a seamless and intuitive manner.

pkg_info and pkg_add are great tools on their own, but taped together with a few utils, they function really nicely as a single tool!

So I threw together pkg_search. It queries the package database for the given string, spits out a numbered list of results of package names containing the search string and offers the user the ability to install the desired package by providing the associated number.



It has no dependancies, it's a simple little korn shell script that uses already included tools.

So, feel free to use it, change it, abuse it, do whatever. It's not supposed to be a replacement for anything, or a game-changer, just a useful little tool, I tend to use it whenever installing packages, so figured I'd share.

Feedback is appreciated of course!


Enjoy ;)

I will definitely install this when I get FreeBSD back on my laptop. Great job, also. :)

(19-08-2013, 12:18 AM)sticky Wrote: I will definitely install this when I get FreeBSD back on my laptop. Great job, also. :)

Thanks sticky :) Though, I'm not sure how much good this'd do on FreeBSD, it's written for OpenBSD, using OpenBSD specific tools :p

Nice script Phyrne, I Will use it when I install OpenBSD some day.

(19-08-2013, 10:52 AM)yrmt Wrote: Nice script Phyrne, i Will use it when I install OpenBSD some day.

Thanks broseph. Yeah do it! Still some improvements to come.

Grand invention. Thanks, hoping to use this on my OpenBSD install :)

(19-08-2013, 05:47 PM)theconjuring Wrote: Grand invention. Thanks, hoping to use this on my OpenBSD install :)

Thanks man, it comes in handy :) Enjoy!

Looks eggcelent! Kind of reminded of emerge search. Will eventually use this on my DragonFly BSD setup. <(^__^)>

Using this now(: thanks phyrne.

(23-09-2013, 11:53 PM)Mafia Wrote: Using this now(: thanks phyrne.

No problem! Enjoy Mafia :)

i like this!

i hope you dont mind but i forked it on github. i added an escape when 0 is entered, because sometimes i wasnt finding anything i wanted to install.

Thanks ajac! Hm, I don't really mind, but do you really think that justifies forking it? Perhaps a pull request or even just a quick suggestion here would have sufficed :)

i don't know about scripting but doesn't suppose to ask me for password when i hit the number of the program i want ?

That's because the script is calling pkg_add to install the program to /usr/local which needs permissions.

Nice. I was looking for something like this. Thanks Phyrne. :)

(03-05-2015, 12:55 PM)greduan Wrote: Nice. I was looking for something like this. Thanks Phyrne. :)

Holy necrobump

I just pull up the /pub/OpenBSD/5.7/packages/`machine -a` directory of my chosen mirror in a browser window and Ctrl+F to see if what I want is in packages. Or pkg_add -n and take a wild guess at the name.

jmbi: whoopsie. lol

If I want to check out what programs are available for OpenBSD, I go to http://ports.su/