pkg_add and regex

Chris Henderson henders254 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 13:01:04 CET 2010


I been trying to install firefox and seems like regex doesn't work
with pkg_add when I look for the package; pkg_add -iv firefox or
pkg_add -iv "*firefox*" doesn't install anything.

I have to ftp to the package directory and find out the exact name of
the firefox package and then do pkg_add in order to install it.

Also noticed things are different with mutt. If I do pkg_add -iv mutt,
I get a list to choose from.

Is there any easy way around installing firefox or packages whose
names are not so obvious?

Thanks.


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