Pkg

9front ships with pkg(1), a native package manager. List currently available packages with the command pkg/list. Install a given package with the command pkg/install [package name]. Other options may be discovered by reading the man page, or the files in /386/bin/pkg/.

Useful Packages

equis: X11 server

go: Go programming language

irc7: irc client

inferno: recent build of Inferno for Plan 9

linuxemu: Linux emulation

lynx: text mode web browser

openssh: scp, sftp, SSH1/SSH2 client

scpu: SSH2 client, written in go

Contrib

Install

To install packages from /n/sources/contrib using contrib(1):

9fs sources
if(! test -d /dist/replica/client)
    mkdir -p /dist/replica/client
if(! test -d /rc/bin/contrib)
    /n/sources/contrib/fgb/root/rc/bin/contrib/install fgb/contrib

and then proceed as normal.