In this post i will show you how i have installed my pkgin in my Netbsd 6.0 Beta.
What’s is pkgin ?
pkgin is cool software unix package manager Like apt-get aptitude yum en merge for Linux distributions
How to install pkgin
First login to your machine
- pkgin installation
The first thing we need to install is pkgin using the old traditionnal way of installing binaries on NetBSD:
# export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0_BETA_current/All/" # pkg_add -v pkgin
To be able to use pkgin we need to configure the following file : /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf defining the repository we want to use, for example:
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0_BETA_current/All/
We can now update the database:
# pkgin update
If you have any issue with this command like libcrypto.so.4 not found, try to make a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libcryptoso.1 to libcrypto.so.4
i have tested this method and it work’s
netbsd6# pkgin update Database needs to be updated. proceed ? [Y/n] y reading local summary... processing local summary... updating database: 100% database for ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/6.0_BETAT_current/All is up-to-date
Now pkgin is ready, you can install everything using the pkgin command. Example vsftpd
netbsd6# pkgin install vsftpd calculating dependencies... done. nothing to upgrade. 1 packages to be installed: vsftpd-2.3.4 (76K to download, 192K to install proceed ? [Y/n]
Is all.
