Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th May 2009 13:28 UTC, submitted by rlem6983
The NetBSD Project recently released NetBSD 5.0, the 13th major release of its Unix operating system. If you are not familiar with the BSD mentality, it's a back-to-basics approach. In this gallery we go from install to running a GNOME desktop in a virtualised VMware instance. This process is console-based.
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2007-04-20
What is your point? If you need binary packages they're all here for NetBSD-4.0 and all the architectures that NetBSD runs on
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD-4.0/
There aren't any packages for NetBSD-5 yet, it was released just a few weeks ago.
So if you run NetBSD-4.0 on i386 architecture and you want to install Firefox3 from NetBSD's repository of binary packages, then all you have to do:
# export PKG_PATH="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD-4.0/i386/All;ftp:/...
# pkg_add firefox3
Sparc Solaris binary packages are at:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/SunOS/sparc/5.9_2008Q3/Al...
I don't understand why people are moaning about building packages from source. Pkgsrc automates everything for you, i.e. it downloads the sources, checks the checksums, builds and installs the packages. All you have to do is go to package's directory and type 'make package'.
I run very old Sun Ultra 10 that has 440MHz UltraSparc IIi CPU. I always build my own packages from source. I've built large packages like kde3, koffice, firefox3, gimp, etc. on this very machine. Yes it does takes a few days to build kde3, but I don't mind waiting, I just leave the machine running all day and night for a few days or so, untill all the packages are done. Right now I'm building complete kde-4.2.3 to see how it works on this slow machine. So what if it takes 2-3 days to build the package, the world is not gonna end by this time...