@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au
2026-09-26 05:11 UTC
Learned the hard way with #NetBSD : if you want the #gd and/or #ImageMagick libraries in PHP (commonly required if you're installing Wordpress or in my case, @movim@piaille.fr), one must install the X11 sets when installing NetBSD.
You can install them later using `sysinst`, however, have a back-up of your `/etc` handy, because it's real easy to accidentally blat your `/etc` config files with system defaults that will boot to single user mode with no `sshd` running.
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@jaypatelani@bsd.network 2026-09-26 07:15
@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au @movim@piaille.fr ebe sysupgrade or upgrades in general is distractive for /etc configs if not careful
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@sborrill@justfollow.me.uk 2026-09-26 07:33
@stuartl@mastodon.longlandclan.id.au @movim@piaille.fr If you have the distribution sets, you can just: cd / tar -xpzf /path/to/sets/xbase.tar.xz That should be enough to get you going if you don't actually want to run X