Install the bash shell in OpenBSD
Monday, September 1st, 2008
If you did not buy your copy of OpenBSD then you won’t have any packages available locally in order to install the bash shell. The below example will show how to obtain the BASH package remotely.
- Step 1 - Adding the BASH shell remotely
- Step 2 - Setting BASH as your login shell
1. Add the i386 package for the BASH shell:
# pkg_add -v ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/packages/i386/bash-3.2.33.tgz
2. Setting BASH as your login shell:
# chsh -s bash