There are three ways to get pkgsrc. Either as a tar file, via SUP, or via CVS. All three ways are described here. To get pkgsrc going, you need to get the pkgsrc.tar.gz file from ftp.NetBSD.org and unpack it into /usr/pkgsrc. As an alternative to the tar file, you can get pkgsrc via the Software Update Protocol, SUP. To do so, make sure your supfile has a line release=pkgsrc in it, see the examples in /usr/share/examples/supfiles, and that the /usr/pkgsrc directory exists. Then, simply run sup -v /path/to/your/supfile. To get pkgsrc via CVS, make sure you have cvs installed. To do an initial (full) checkout of pkgsrc, do the following steps: &cprompt; setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot &cprompt; setenv CVS_RSH ssh &cprompt; cd /usr &cprompt; cvs checkout -P pkgsrc This will create the pkgsrc directory in your /usr, and all the package source will be stored under /usr/pkgsrc. To update pkgsrc after the initial checkout, make sure you have CVS_RSH set as above, then do: &cprompt; cd /usr/pkgsrc &cprompt; cvs -q update -dP Please also note that it is possible to have multiple copies of the pkgsrc hierarchy in use at any one time - all work is done relatively within the pkgsrc tree.