This tutorial will guide you through the installation of systemd-nspawn on NetBSD. systemd-nspawn is a containerization tool that provides an improved way to manage containers on Linux systems. This tool is available on NetBSD as well and can be installed by following these simple steps:
The first step in installing systemd-nspawn on NetBSD is to install the required packages. The following packages are required for the installation process:
To install these packages, run the following command:
# pkgin install pkgsrc git autoconf automake
The next step is to download the source code for systemd-nspawn. You can do this using the following command:
# git clone https://github.com/systemd/systemd
This command will download the whole systemd source code. If you only need systemd-nspawn, you can either download the source from GitHub or download the tarball of the latest release and extract only the nspawn directory.
Once you have downloaded the source code for systemd-nspawn, you can go ahead and build the tool. To do this, follow these steps:
./systemd/src/nspawn/.# ./autogen.sh
# make
# make install
After these steps, systemd-nspawn should be installed on your NetBSD machine.
After the installation is complete, you can verify if systemd-nspawn is installed on your NetBSD machine. To do so, run the following command:
# nspawn --version
If the installation was successful, the version number of systemd-nspawn should be displayed on the console.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed systemd-nspawn on your NetBSD machine. Now you can start creating and managing containers using this powerful tool.
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