4. Second Boot : Installing Useful Software

4.1. Install Common Console Software

There are the software i use on my computers, for a fully fonctionnal console station :

  1. editors/easyedit : you can also make it the default editor of a user by editing ~/.cshrc and ~/.profile

  2. editors/vim : much more advanced than vi. If you install gvim for to have a gtk GUI, don't install it, as the gvim package build also vim for console.

  3. mail/fetchmail : to fetch mail from an external mail server

  4. mail/mutt : to read mail

  5. chat/micq : to chat on icq. Run it once, it will create ~/.micq/micqrc file. Quit it and edit this file to add your ICQ password. Run it again, and after a well-done login, just type : "contact import"

  6. chat/bitchx : to chat on irc

  7. net/lftp : an great unix ftp client

  8. sysutils/cdrecord : usefull if you have a CD / DVD writer (also contain mkisofs)

I actualy advise you to test them all in console, and take time to be used to work with your console, as it is always here, even if you don't have access directly to your computer, SSH POWER !!!

This is really useful...

For specific use, you can also install :

  1. audio/lame : to encode audioYou need to accept the license and edit mk.conf, as it is said :

ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=fee-based-commercial-license

  1. audio/cdparanoia : to recover bad audio CDs on wav

  2. graphics/povray : to generate images by eralistic rendering from a .pov file, all in one command line ;-)You need to accept the license and edit mk.conf, as it is said :

ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=povray-license

  1. graphics/ImageMagick : to edit and convert images in command line, really useful.

4.2. Install Common Graphic Software

There are the software I use for a fully fonctionnal X station :

  1. mail/fetchmailconf (GUI for fetchmail)

  2. graphics/gimp

  3. graphics/blender (only if you can activate dri in X, otherwise it is really useless)

  4. devel/SDL

  5. editors/nedit

  6. devel/anjuta

  7. multimedia/mplayer

  8. www/mozilla

  9. aterm

  10. games/xpuyopuyo, games/xmahjong, games/frozen-bubble, games/freeciv-client (there is pubserver.freeciv.org where you can play without using your own server ;-). Nice isn't it ?)

  11. wm/fluxbox

  12. wm/xfce4-wm et wm/xfce4-wm-themes

  13. misc/openoffice. Beware ! You need huge disk space to build it from source. If you want to build it on external disk, just type "env WRKOBJSRC=/extern_mount/pkgsrc make update"

4.3. Install Server Software

There are the software I am using on most of my servers :

  1. webmin : great tool to amdin your server. However use it only if you already know how NetBSD OS is working... v1.17 -> modification : /etc/rc.conf in System/Shutdown and Reboot section

  2. apache

  3. webalizer

4.4. Install Desktop Software

4.5. Install Enhanced Software