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It is generally assumed that the global zone is used for management of zones, and work is done in local zones.

If you desire, however, pkgsrc may be installed in the global zone.  These instructions are for installing in the global zone.  pkgin is already installed inside vm's (zones), and following these instructions inside a OS-virtual container will probably break that installation of pkgin.

While not strictly necessary, you may wish to have persistent storage set up.

as root, enter /:

Then you must download the latest pkgsrc bootstrap image, and unpack it:

Now, reach out to the core pkgsrc tools to rebuild the package meta database:

and then update pkgin's database:

# pkgin -y up

pkgin is now installed and ready for use. 'man pkgin' or 'pkgin help' for more information on the pkgin tool.

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  1. Jul 12, 2012

    Nigel Magnay

    or the later repository bootstrap:

    http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/sdc/2012Q1/x86_64/bootstrap.tar.gz

  2. Apr 16, 2013

    Per Sjoholm

    Or

    http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/bootstrap/

    http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/bootstrap/bootstrap-2013Q1-x86_64.tar.gz

  3. Sep 04, 2013

    Bach

    I have followed those exact same steps above using 

    # cd /
    # curl -k http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/bootstrap/bootstrap-2013Q1-x86_64.tar.gz | gzcat | tar -xf -
    # pkg_admin rebuild
    # pkgin -y up

    Output of that was:

    pkg_admin: heimdal-1.5.2nb2: Symlink `/opt/local/man/man5/qop.5' exists and is in +CONTENTS but target does not exist!
    Stored 138992 files and 68 explicit directories from 687 packages in /opt/local/pkg/pkgdb.byfile.db.
    Done.

    I thought it all went well, except it didn't!

    now whatever command i run i get this error:
    # ls
    ld.so.1: ls: fatal: /opt/local/lib/libintl.so.8: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
    Killed

    # vim
    ld.so.1: vim: fatal: /opt/local/lib/libncurses.so.5: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
    Killed

    Please help!

    thanks

    1. Sep 21, 2013

      Martin Kuchar

      Bach, try with this package: http://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/SmartOS/bootstrap/bootstrap-trunk.tar.gz

      works for me nicely, just installed on fresh SmartOS install.