On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, James K. Lowden wrote:
> sujit sinha wrote:
> > Thanks James for your reply. Could you please be
more specific. I am
> > used to Ubuntu not Netbsd, so to install a
package mplayerplug-in what
> > is the command I give?
>
> That was actually Jeremy's reply, not mine, but I'll
answer anyway.
>
> You want to start at www.pkgsrc.org. Basically you
download a tarball
> "skeleton" tree that lets the pkgsrc system
build any package from
> scratch. Before you build anything, though, you want
to tell pkgsrc where
> to install the binaries it builds. The default is
/usr/pkg, but if you
> can't create that directory, you'll obviously have to
offer another one.
> Cf. "man packages" for LOCALBASE and X11BASE.
>
> Then cd to the mplayer directory and type
"make". pkgsrc will fetch
> whatever it needs, including other packages it depends
on, and build
> everything. (That's the theory, anyway. This list
exists because it
> doesn't *always* work out.)  Then
"make install" and you're home free.
And to add to that:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/fa
q.html#non-root-pkgsrc
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