``Packages'' are pre-compiled and tested versions of popular applications.

The OpenBSD CD-ROM ships with applications pre-built for various hardware
	architectures.  The applications and supported architectures are:

			i386	sparc	amiga	m68k	alpha	mips
  bash-2.01.1		yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
  emacs-20.2		yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
  ghostscript-5.10	yes	no	no	no	no	no
  gmake-3.76.1		yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
  id-utils-3.2		no	yes	yes	yes	yes	no
  ircii-2.8.2-epic3.004	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
  pine-3.96		yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
  screen-3.7.4		yes	yes	no	yes	yes	yes
  tcsh-6.07.02		yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
  unzip-5.3.1		yes	yes	no	yes	yes	no


	Note: If space becomes available other packages may be added
	to the CD-ROM.  Check the packages directory on CD-ROM number
	2 to see what packages are actually available for your hardware
	architecture.

	(the amiga is treated specially due to its 8k hardware pagesize
	aka NBPG, it's very well possible amiga will run the other m68k
	arch's binaries, but we make no guarantees at this point,
	better safe than sorry).

To install one or more of these packages you must
1) become the superuser (root)
2) mount CD-ROM number 2
3) use the ``pkg_add'' command to install the software

Example (in which we use su(1) to get superuser privileges, thus
you have to be in group "wheel", see the manual page for su(1)).

    $ su
    Password: <enter your root password>
    # mkdir -p /cdrom
    # mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom
    # pkg_add /cdrom/packages/<arch>/<package-name>
    # <add more packages if desired>
    # umount /cdrom
	
Your hardware architecture can be determined by issuing
the command ``arch''.  The response will be something like
``OpenBSD.sparc''.  ``sparc'' is the architecture.

Package names are usually the application name and version
with .tgz appended, e.g. pine-3.96.tgz

In addition to the packages on the CD-ROM you can find other packages on
ftp.openbsd.org in the directory pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/<arch>/.  If
you know the name of the package you can fetch and install in one step
by using the pkg_add command as root and giving the URL to the package.
Example:

    $ su
    Password: <enter your root password>
    # pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.3/packages/i386/emacs-20.2.tgz