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Old 10th October 2016
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Default pkgin install cant find packages

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PKG_PATH=http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/7.0.1/All
i use netbsd 7.0.1

pkgin install cant find firefox, smplayer, mplayer or other common packages..
is the link bad?
why arent there those packages? i thought "http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub..." was the "official" link?

what am i missing?

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Welcome to daemonforums!

I've been wondering about this type of question too. My favourite browser, SeaMonkey, has been MIA as a binary package for quite some time, and lately firefox too. (I use i386/6.1.5_PATCH.)

Prompted by your question I poked around ftp.netbsd.org just now with lynx. There is a directory pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/7.0_current/All which was new to me. It has firefox and seamonkey binaries, but no mplayer (yet?). Don't know if they'll work with 7.0.1, but quite possibly so ... worth a try?
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Have you tried the command pkgin update before going install these programs? It updates the package database to the latest version.
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PKG_PATH is used for pkg_add not by pkgin.
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Old 11th October 2016
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As the Quarterly build directory is populated, the developers change the link from 7.0.1 -> 2016Q2 to 7.0.1 -> 2016Q3. This just happened a few days ago.

You can either wait for the builds to show up in 2016Q3 or edit the configuration file to pull from Q2.
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the file formats mplayer are/can be patented in some countries, and its legal status is uncertain in several countries. Because of this, mplayer packages aren't build.

From the source of pkgsrc :
file: ...multimedia/mplayer-share/Makefile.common
RESTRICTED= Prohibited by USAs DMCA and patent law
NO_BIN_ON_CDROM= ${RESTRICTED}
NO_BIN_ON_FTP= ${RESTRICTED}
NO_SRC_ON_FTP= ${RESTRICTED}
......

You can build mplayer and other related mplayer packages building yourself from pkgsrc: http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/stable/pkgsrc.tar.bz2

Uncompress it under /usr.

# cd /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/mplayer
# make install
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I think NetBSD changed the architecture name for packages from amd64 to x86_64.
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