Using Packages
Packages are the preferred method to install OpenBSD software. Packages are built by the OpenBSD Project’s ports team, and are expected to work without any special tweaks from the user. You must configure the software, of course, but the software itself should work as expected. Unless you are planning to make modifications to a specific piece of software, you’ll be a lot happier simply installing the package fetched from a nearby mirror rather than building it from the port (or, worse, installing from the source code without the port).
Package Files and $PKG_PATH
Every package is available as a single file named after the port it is found in, a version number, and a .tgz extension. For example, version 2.4.2 of the adsuck ...
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