pkgsrc for installing open source
October 18th, 2007
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I’ve always found it a lot of work to install open source software on QNX.. until today. pkgsrc is fantastic!
From the QNX community website:
‘pkgsrc’ is a framework for building third-party software and managing the resulting packages. Originally developed on NetBSD, pkgsrc has evolved according to NetBSD’s principle of portability and currently supports 13 different platforms (hopefully QNX will be number 14). Over 6400 packages are in the base distribution.
This handles dependencies and can build packages on your desktop, very important for a good UNIX system. So far I’ve got bash, openssh, and perl installed… more to follow 
If you haven’t given it a shot it is quite simple to get started with, you can find the instructions on the wiki.
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