pkgsrc is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 22,500 packages. It is used to enable freely available software to be configured and built easily on our 23 supported platforms.

The binary packages that are produced by pkgsrc can be used without having to compile everything from source. NetBSD already contains the necessary tools for managing binary packages; on other platforms you need to bootstrap pkgsrc to get the package management tools installed.

Available packages indexed by category
Complete list of all packages

quickstart

install binary packages (NetBSD)

PKG_PATH="http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/$(uname -s)/$(uname -m)/$(uname -r|cut -f '1 2' -d.)/All/"
export PKG_PATH
pkg_add tmux

install binary packages (SmartOS/illumos, Mac OS X, Linux)

Binary package sets for SmartOS/illumos, Mac OS X, and Linux are available from Joyent. Head to http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ where you will find full installation instructions.

bootstrap

cvs -danoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot checkout pkgsrc
cd pkgsrc/bootstrap
./bootstrap

build a package

cd pkgsrc/devel/memcached
make install clean

start packaging yourself

Take a look at pkgsrc-wip if you want to contribute by packaging software yourself!

docs

The comprehensive pkgsrc guide

pkgsrc-users mailing list: archives | subscribe

#pkgsrc is on freenode

There is a pkgsrc section on the NetBSD wiki. (Note that it is currently mostly a (useful) collection of HOWTOs, and that perhaps some of the content should migrate into the pkgsrc guide.)

get pkgsrc

• Latest stable release: 2020Q2
• Binary Packages
• stable bz2
• current bz2

get t-shirts

• NetBSD on cafepress
• pkgsrc on cafepress

supported platforms

• NetBSD

  • using pkgsrc on NetBSD

• Solaris / SmartOS / illumos

  • Binary package sets for SmartOS/illumos from Joyent
  • using pkgsrc on Solaris

• Linux

  • Binary package sets for EL6 distributions from Joyent
  • using pkgsrc on linux

• Darwin (Mac OS X)

  • Binary package sets for Mac OS X from Joyent
  • using pkgsrc on os x (64bit)

• FreeBSD

• OpenBSD

• IRIX

  • using pkgsrc on IRIX

• AIX

  • using pkgsrc on AIX

• DragonFlyBSD

  • using pkgsrc on DFBSD

• OSF/1

  • using pkgsrc on OSF/1

• HP-UX

  • using pkgsrc on HPUX

• QNX

  • using pkgsrc on QNX

• Haiku

• MirBSD

  • using pkgsrc on MirBSD

• Minix3

  • using pkgsrc on Minix 3

• Cygwin

• GNU/kFreeBSD

security

For getting the latest package vulnerabilities database and checking your installed packages against it, use

pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities
pkg_admin audit

The vulnerabilities database and package EOL database are both signed with the pkgsrc-security GPG key.

A hardening guide is also available.

information for developers

• Quarterly Branch Planning and Freeze Policy

other links

• pkgsrc.se - excellent pkgsrc website
• NetBSD wiki pkgsrc/
• pkgsrcCon - meet pkgsrc developers and users
• pkgsrc bugs @ NetBSD
• Submit a pkgsrc issue to NetBSD's bug database
  • when submitting an issue please use the "pkg" category
  • in 'One line summary of the problem' ('Synopsis' field) put the cat/pkg (e.g. lang/gawk) and the name of the package
  • about NetBSD GNATS
• Outdated packages in pkgsrc
• Outdated perl packages in pkgsrc
• BulkTracker - bulk build reports