Using pre-compiled packages is not recommended simply
because of the dependencies you might have, that
others don't.

Best suggestion (as pointed before), use pkgsrc.

Regards!
ET

--- Andreas Fuchs <fox@tcnet.ch> wrote:

> Hi Glyn
> 
> Have a look at my howto's at:
> http://www.aironaut.ch/qube
> specially at
> http://www.aironaut.ch/content/view/27/53/
> 
> Also i have some ready to run pakages available at: 
> 
> http://www.aironaut.ch/Cobalt/NetBSD3.0/ so you
> don't need to compile  
> time from source
> 
> regards
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Quoting Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>:
> 
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I spent a bit of time tonight and followed Pete
> Rushmeres guide to
> > getting the Qube set up, thanks for that Pete.
> >
> > However I started to stumble a bit when I got to
> the section
> > installing samba and apache, I didn't even manage
> to find the source
> > to install these. Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?
> >
> > I had a look at samba.org and tried to get a
> tarball of the source,
> > but I just couldn't find it. There were
> instructions to getting it
> > from SVN but I haven't got an svn client on the
> qube, theres a CVS
> > though.
> >
> > Any pointers, especially explicit ones for a dummy
> would really be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> > Glyn
> > --- Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Everyone,
> >>
> >> Thanks for all the replies, I've only just
> acquired the qube and I
> >> want to get the basics up and running pretty
> quick.
> >>
> >> I've done the install with the 3.99 CD and all
> seemed to go okay,
> >> so
> >> now I've just got to set it all up. I really
> didn't have too much
> >> time to look at it after I did the install but I
> did rlogin and do
> >> "man afterinstall" but it said no manual was
> found.
> >>
> >> I've found a few guides etc around (I'm not being
> lazy honest!) but
> >> if people could post their links to any reading
> material they have
> >> I'd appreciate it. I don't intend it do go under
> any heavy load but
> >> what I really want to do it stick
> apache,php&mysql on it and also
> >> samba. If poss a mail server too (can I use
> xmail?).
> >>
> >> Is there anything I can do to get the lcd to do
> more than display
> >> the
> >> IP of eth0? Getting the buttons going would be
> nice; I'm prepared
> >> to
> >> be quite adventurous here.
> >>
> >> Any other web based management utils out there?
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Glyn
> >> --- John Margaritis <john.margaritis@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > > I read somewhere that webmin causes the Qube
> to almost grind to
> >> a
> >> > > halt. Would anyone here care to comment on
> this?
> >> >
> >> > 'Twas I, 'Twas I Pete.
> >> >
> >> > I didn't have much RAM in it then (only 16 MB),
> but the Qube was
> >> > choking big
> >> > time when the webmin server was running.  It's
> a pig!  I even
> >> > loaded the
> >> > 'minimal' version and it was still bad.  Even
> if you plan to max
> >> > out your
> >> > Qube to 256 MB of RAM, I still wouldn't
> recommend installing
> >> Webmin
> >> > on it...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ...especially if you want to load a different
> theme (skin) that
> >> > won't
> >> > entirely disgrace your eyes (the default Webmin
> GUI looks like
> >> > poo).  Put
> >> > webmin on a P3 Linux server or something
> similar, but forget
> >> about
> >> > it on the
> >> > Qube2.
> >> >
> >> > Also Glyn, Webmin was designed primarily for
> Linux and though it
> >> > does its
> >> > best to guess NetBSD file/directory resources,
> it's just not that
> >> > good at
> >> > it.  I'm sure this is fixable with command-line
> edits of the
> >> > appropriate
> >> > Webmin config files, but I don't see much
> point.  The author says
> >> > it works
> >> > best on Red Hat Linux and Sun OS.
> >> >
> >> > Because I'm a UNIX newbie, I installed Webmin
> right after fresh
> >> > install of
> >> > NetBSD 2.0 (a while back) out of fear that I
> wouldn't be able to
> >> do
> >> > anything
> >> > on my server without a GUI, but... it turns out
> after learning
> >> > mostly from
> >> > Pete's Terraqube website (and, of course, from
> the folks on the
> >> > NetBSD
> >> > cobalt list) that NetBSD's command line really
> isn't too bad.  I
> >> > would never
> >> > consider putting the Qube through such terrible
> horrors ever,
> >> ever
> >> > again; I
> >> > even promised it I wouldn't.
> >> >
> >> > Check this out... a Mac mini 'server' with
> Webmin:
> >> > http://nerdvittles.com/index.php?p=29
> >> >
> >> > This article cautions against keeping the
> Webmin server running
> >> > unless you
> >> > have 1 GB of RAM!!  And keep in mind that's on
> a G4 Mac;
> >> technology
> >> > that is
> >> > seven years newer and with ~ 6 X the cpu
> frequency of the Qube2
> >> > (250 MHz).
> >> >
> >> > Webmin is very resource hungry, if you do go
> through with this,
> >> > have
> >> > patience and go strong friend, go strong.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > John
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 8/5/06, Pete Rushmere <pete@rushmere.org>
> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > At 19:57 04/08/2006, Justin Newcomer wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > >However, there are web interfaces for
> configuring a server,
> >> such
> >> > as
> >> > > >webmin, which can be installed if you
> install from the 3.99
> >> > restore
> >> > > >cd.
> >> > >
> >> > > Hi,
> 
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