Installing the Pre-Built Binary Packages

Find the release

Make sure you know which release you are working on. pkgsrc generally cuts a release every quarter.

Download binary packages

The pkg_add utility (see the bootstrap page) can resolve dependencies when pointed to a ftp or http site. Unfortunatly, this isn't available currently due to the way Foundry27 is setup.

We suggest you do this:

• Go to the Binary package download page, find the particular release you are interested in, (say pkgsrc-2007Q2) download every packages in that release into a local directory.

• You can use "pkg_add /path/to/packages/<the_package>.tgz" to install the binary package.