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# NAME

`pkgsrc` — NetBSD packages collection (framework for third-party software)

# DESCRIPTION

The NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc) is a framework for building and maintaining third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems. It is used to enable freely available software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms.

Tools are available to install ready-to-use packages and to perform various administrative tasks for the package system.

# SEE ALSO

pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), pkg_info(1)

Alistair Crooks, Hubert Feyrer, and The pkgsrc developers, The pkgsrc guide,, Documentation on the NetBSD packages system, https://www.NetBSD.org/docs/pkgsrc/.

March 2, 2007 | NetBSD 11.0