Pkgsrc Quick version If you still have ports installed you might wanna move them out of the way. /usr/local /usr/X11R6 /var/db/pkg To make cvs work sanely, add this to your ~/.cvsrc files: cvs -z4 -q diff -u -p -N update -dP checkout -P In the default pkgsrc will have its makefiles under /usr/pksrc and install to /usr/pkg and its DB of installed packages in /var/db/pkg, pkgsrc-wip makefiles are under /usr/pkgsrc/wip. Fetch a snapshot of pkgsrc (ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc-current.tar.gz) and pkgsrc-wip (http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/snapshots/) (wip = work in progress). Unpack them: cd /usr bsdtar xf .../pkgsrc.tar.gz cd pkgsrc cvs up bsdtar xf .../pkgsrc-wip....tar.gz cd wip cvs up Bootstrap pkgsrc: cd /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap ./bootstrap mkdir /usr/pkg/etc cp work/mk.conf.example /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf Add /usr/pkg/bin and maybe /usr/pkg/sbin to your $PATH or symlink /usr/local /usr/pkg: cd /usr ln -sf pkg local Install pkgmanager (NOTE: pkgsrc/lang/clisp a dependency of pkgmanager is currently broken): cd /usr/pkgsrc/wip/pkgmanager bmake install