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pkgsrc: The NetBSD Packages Collection

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About pkgsrc

The NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc) is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 13000 packages. It is used to enable freely available software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms.

  • Documentation
  • Supported platforms
  • Binary distribution
  • Source distribution
  • Other related reading
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    news items, activity, etc are now at pkgsrc.org


    The pkgsrc downloads
  • Latest tarball of pkgsrc-current: pkgsrc.tar.gz (updated weekly).


    • Available packages



    ●Latest pkgsrc changes
    ●Available  packages indexed by category
    ●Complete  list of all packages



    Documentation


    ● The pkgsrc guide  



    Supported platforms


    pkgsrc consists of both a Source distribution and a Binary distribution for these operating systems. After retrieving the required source or binaries, you can be up and running with pkgsrc in just minutes!


    Table 1. Platforms supported by pkgsrc
    Platform Date Support Added
    NetBSD Aug 1997
    Solaris Mar 1999
    Linux Jun 1999
    Darwin (Mac OS X) Oct 2001
    FreeBSD Nov 2002
    OpenBSD Nov 2002
    IRIX Dec 2002
    BSD/OS Dec 2003
    AIX Dec 2003
    Interix (Microsoft Windows Services for Unix) Mar 2004
    DragonFlyBSD Oct 2004
    OSF/1 Nov 2004
    HP-UX Apr 2007
    QNX Oct 2007
    Haiku Sep 2010
    MirBSD Jan 2011






    Binary distribution


    The binary packages that are produced by pkgsrc can be used without having to compile everything from source. NetBSD already contains the necessary tools for managing binary packages, on other platforms you need to bootstrap pkgsrc to get the package management tools installed. A browsable list of packages, including links to available binary packages, is here.

    Binary packages are available on ftp.NetBSD.org and its mirrors in the directory /pub/pkgsrc/packages/ (see the pkgsrc guide for more details). If the tools for managing binary packages do not exist on a platform or are too old, they are provided along the binary packages in an archive called bootstrap.tar.gz, which must be extracted in the / directory. Then you can run /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_add to install binary packages. See the pkgsrc guide for detailed instructions.


    Source distribution


    You can download the pkgsrc tarball or check out the latest sources using AnonCVS: 
    # cvs checkout pkgsrc
    (for using the AnonCVS service, see the Fetching by CVS section in the NetBSD Guide).

    After downloading and/or extracting the sources, installing the bootstrap kit should be as simple as: 
    # cd pkgsrc/bootstrap
# ./bootstrap
    This will use the defaults of /usr/pkg for the prefix and /var/db/pkg for the package database directory. However, these can also be set using command-line parameters (use ./bootstrap --help to see the available options).

    Note that when using pkgsrc on a non-NetBSD system, use the bmake command instead of “make” to run NetBSD make, which is required for correct pkgsrc operation. Simply substitute “bmake” for “make” in pkgsrc documentation.



    Other related reading



    ●Wildcards and the NetBSD  Packages Collection
    ●APaper describing Package  Views

    ● A web frontend for pkgsrc, provided by NetBSD Sweden





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