Abram Olson wrote: > Hello, I just installed the Solaris Express Community Edition on my > workstation. I've run into a few snags and I have a few questions. > > bash-3.2$ uname -a > SunOS dagney 5.11 snv_78 i86pc i386 i86pc > > I have an nvidia 7800gt graphics card and the graphical installer went > corrupt after a few minutes and then locked up shortly after that. So > I used the text installer. > > I've been trying to run the sun updater for about 30 minutes now and > it's just sitting there doing nothing. There is very little network > activity but both cpu's in the machine are making very nice sine wave > pattern as they move from 0 to 100% usage and back. Is this normal?
Updates are only pushed into the repositories used by the Sun Updater for finished/fully-released products like Solaris 8, 9, & 10, or Sun Studio 12 - not for under-development snapshot releases like Solaris Express, so it's normal for it to not find any updates on SXCE. > My big question though is, software management. How do I find out > whats installed on the system? How do I install new software? I've > been using debian for a few years now. That might help you to > understand where I'm coming from. I can't seem to find a basic > introduction to the concepts and tools used in solaris to manage > software. In SXCE, the packaging tools are pkgadd, pkginfo, etc. - there's man pages for them and a manual in http://docs.sun.com. However, these only manage the packages installed on the current system - there's no connection to any repository to pull down more packages. For something more like apt-get, the blastwave project [1] provides pkg-get, a wrapper around pkgadd/pkginfo/etc. that pulls add-on packages from their repository, and the Image Packaging System [2] under development for OpenSolaris provides a replacement packaging system with repository support built in. [1] http://www.blastwave.org/ [2] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
