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Once the software has been built, it is manipulated with the pkg_* tools so that installation and de-installation, printing of an inventory of all installed packages and retrieval of one-line comments or more verbose descriptions are all simple.

pkgsrc currently contains over 5000 packages, including:

• www/apache - The Apache HTTP Server
• www/mozilla - The Mozilla web browser
• meta-pkgs/gnome - The GNOME Desktop Environment
• meta-pkgs/kde3 - The K Desktop Environment

pkgsrc has built-in support for handling varying dependencies, such as pthreads and X Window System, and extended features such as IPv6 support on a range of platforms.

pkgsrc was originally developed on NetBSD, and now supports the following platforms:

• Darwin ( Mac OS X)
• FreeBSD
• IRIX
• Linux
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• SolarisThe Solaris Operating Environment (OE) Solaris is a computer operating system, the proprietary Unix variant developed by Sun Microsystems (Solaris is slated to be released under on OSI certified Open-Source license with the release of Solaris 10 by the fi

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PkgsrcThe NetBSD package system, pkgsrc is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems. It is used to enable such freely available software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms. Once the software has b