Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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. > Ok so I shouldn't expect to see any updates in the update manager anyway? Isn't a build of Solaris Express Community Edition released every two weeks? Are the builds independent of each other or are updated package made available after the new releases?
Also, it still seems weird that the updater would happily run for hours trying to find updates that don't exist and never tell the user that there aren't any updates to be had. Is it likely that the updater is failing because I didn't register this install and if so, how can I re-run the registration tool? >> 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. > I'm having a problem with not being able to connect to samba shares. I've been digging around and it seems that the samba client package is called SUNWsmbac (or at least it was in solaris version prior to 10). This package doesn't seem to be installed on my system and isn't on the dvd. How can I install the samba client in this case? > 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/ > I prefer not to get into third party repositories if I don't absolutely have to. Solaris seems to have almost all of my needs covered with applications that are included by default anyway. I've read the IPS pages already. It looks promising. Should I expect a repository that's just core applications and files or more like debian's apt or the BSD's ports systems in terms of scope? Thank you very much for your time and explanations :-) Abe
