May 2007
Beginner
628 pages
15h 46m
English
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Getting bash for xBSD
Problem
You want to get bash for your FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD system, or you want to make sure you have the latest version.
Solution
To see if bash is installed, check the /etc/shells file. To install or
update bash, use the pkg_add command. If you are an experienced BSD user, you may prefer using the ports collection, but
we will not cover that here.
FreeBSD:
pkg_add -vr bash
For NetBSD, browse to Application Software for NetBSD at http://netbsd.org/Documentation/software/ and locate the latest bash package for your version and architecture, then use a command such as:
pkg_add -vu ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-2005Q3/NetBSD-2.0/i386/ All/bash-3.0pl16nb3.tgz
For OpenBSD, you use the pkg_add
-vr command. You may have to adjust the FTP path for your version and
architecture. Also, there may be a statically compiled version. For
example: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/i386/bash-3.0.16p1-static.tgz.
pkg_add -vr ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/i386/bash-3.0.16p1.tgz
Discussion
FreeBSD and OpenBSD place bash in /usr/local/bin/bash while NetBSD uses /usr/pkg/ bin/bash.
Interestingly, PC-BSD 1.2, a “rock-solid Unix operating system based on FreeBSD,” comes with bash 3.1.17(0) in /usr/local/bin/bash, though the default shell is still csh.
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