$NetBSD: README,v 1.7 2003/07/27 03:49:29 grant Exp $ To try to get pkgsrc working on your system, please try the following as root: # ./bootstrap [ --prefix=${PREFIX} ] [ --pkgdbdir=${PKGDBDIR} ] \ [ --pkgsrcdir=${PKGSRCDIR} ] The defaults for the arguments are as follows: --prefix /usr/pkg --pkgdbdir /var/db/pkg --pkgsrcdir /usr/pkgsrc It is perfectly acceptable to place ${PKGDBDIR} under ${PREFIX}. Make sure that you have a working C compiler and make(1) binary in your path. See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html for more information about bootstrapping and using pkgsrc. We'd be very interested in hearing of any successes or failures on "unknown" (to us) systems.