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Title: Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD |
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Author: Solène |
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Date: 06 February 2021 |
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Tags: openbsd pkgsrc |
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Description: |
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This quick article will explain how to install pkgsrc packages on an |
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OpenBSD installation. This is something regulary asked on #openbsd |
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freenode irc channel. I am not convinced by the relevant use of pkgsrc |
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under OpenBSD but why not :) |
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I will cover an unprivileged installation that doesn't require root. I |
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will use packages from 2020Q4 release, I may not update regularly this |
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text so you will have to adapt to your current year. |
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```shell commands to install pkgsrc, dollar sign mean it's a regular user |
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$ cd ~/ |
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$ ftp https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2020Q4/pkgsrc.tar.gz |
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$ tar -xzf pkgsrc.tar.gz |
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$ cd pkgsrc/bootstrap |
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$ ./bootstrap --unprivileged |
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``` |
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From now you must add the path ~/pkg/bin to your $PATH environment |
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variable. The pkgsrc tree is in ~/pkgsrc/ and all the relevant files |
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for it to work are in ~/pkg/. |
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You can install programs by searching directories of software you want |
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in ~/pkgsrc/ and run "bmake install", for example in |
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~/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/ to install irssi irc client. |
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I'm not sure X11 software compiles well, I got issues compiling dbus as |
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a dependency of x11/xterm and I got compilation errors, maybe clashing |
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with Xenocara from base system... I don't really want to investigate |
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more about this though. |
