How to Install Spruce on NetBSD

Spruce is a command-line tool for manipulating YAML, JSON, and BOSH deployment manifests. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Spruce on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure that you have the following:

• A machine running NetBSD
• Internet access
• Root access or sudo privileges

Steps

Follow the steps below to install Spruce on NetBSD:

Step 1: Install the latest version of Go

Spruce is written in Go, so you need to install the Go programming language to build it. You can download the latest version of Go from the official website at https://golang.org/dl/.

Run the following command to download the Go binary archive:

$ sudo fetch https://golang.org/dl/go1.17.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

You can replace go1.17.1 in the command above with the latest version of Go available.

Extract the archive by running:

$ sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.17.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

You should now have Go installed in /usr/local/go/bin.

Step 2: Install Git

Spruce is hosted on GitHub, so you need to install Git to clone the source code. You can install Git using the following command:

$ sudo pkg_add git

Step 3: Clone the Spruce repository

Clone the Spruce repository using the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/geofffranks/spruce.git

This will create a directory called spruce in the current directory.

Step 4: Build Spruce

Change to the spruce directory and build the spruce binary:

$ cd spruce
$ /usr/local/go/bin/go build

This will create a binary called spruce in the current directory.

Step 5: Install Spruce

Copy the spruce binary to /usr/local/bin to make it accessible system-wide:

$ sudo cp spruce /usr/local/bin

This will install Spruce on your NetBSD machine.

Step 6: Verify installation

Verify that Spruce is installed correctly by running the following command:

$ spruce --version

This should output the version of Spruce installed.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Spruce on NetBSD. Spruce is a powerful tool that can simplify the management of YAML, JSON, and BOSH deployment manifests. With Spruce, you can quickly and easily merge, diff, and filter YAML and JSON files, saving you time and effort in managing your infrastructure.

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