How to Install Stump on NetBSD

In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Stump on NetBSD. Stump is a window manager designed to be lightweight and fast. It is ideal for NetBSD because it is very resource efficient.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, you will need the following:

  • A running instance of NetBSD
  • A user account with sudo privileges
  • A stable internet connection

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

To install Stump, we need to install some dependencies. These dependencies include:

  • pkg-config
  • xorg
  • xcb-proto
  • gcc
  • make

To install these dependencies, execute the following command in your terminal:

sudo pkgin install pkg-config xorg xcb-proto gcc make

Step 2: Download and Extract Stump

Next, we need to download the Stump source code, so execute the following command to download the source code:

git clone https://github.com/dcat/stump.git

After downloading the source code, extract the files using this command:

cd stump && tar -xzf stump-0.8.0.tar.gz

Step 3: Build and Install Stump

Now, we can build and install Stump. To do this, navigate to the stump directory and run the following commands:

cd stump-0.8.0/
./configure
make
sudo make install

Step 4: Configure your Environment

Now that Stump is installed, you need to update your environment variables to use it as your window manager. To do this, open up your ~/.xinitrc file and add the following line:

exec stump

Step 5: Start Stump

Finally, you can start Stump by running startx in your terminal. This will start the X window system with Stump as your window manager.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured Stump on NetBSD.