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This presentation contains information abouth the general problems
encountered when installing and managing open source software, and
introduces the pkgsrc system, which can be used to install software
easily from source, independent of your operating system. Instead of
knowing details like xmkmf, autoconf, libtool and Makefiles, a simple
"make install" is enough to install a package (and all its
dependencies).
The pkgsrc system will download the package's sources, which is then
unpacked, patched, configured, compiled and installed for later querying
and removing. The pkgsrc system is based on the NetBSD Packages
Collection
and was ported to a number of other operating systems like Linux,
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, Solaris, Irix and even MS Windows.
speaker: D'Arcy J.M. Cain
location: SITE H0104
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