On 15 Aug 2006, at 21:45, mowestusa wrote:

> Be aware I'm just trying to learn NetBSD.
> 
> I found in the NetBSD wiki a great little help in
> learning how to install packages (binaries). I used
> this little hint to do "setenv PKG_PATH..." and it
> worked perfectly. The first thing I did was install
> bash shell because I'm more used to that from my linux
> experience. I also found a great tutorial on the wiki
> telling me how to switch to using bash as my default
> shell. This too worked great, but (I know some of you
> have guessed this one) "pkg_add -v packagename does
> not work anymore because it is only looking for the
> package in my home directory. I have tried setenv
> PKG_PATH again, but it says that no command exists. So
> I'm guessing that since I'm not using the sh shell any
> longer this is the issue.
> 
> How do I use bash and set the "PKG_PATH" back to the
> "ftp://" site?

You should edit your ~/.bash_profile to include
  PKG_PATH="ftp://......."
  PKG_PATH="ftp://......."
  export PKG_PATH
or
 export PKG_PATH="ftp://......."

Note that quotes round the path are needed.

David