Howard: > I'm interested in pitivi and understand that SFE is a software > repository. How do I configure the Opensolaris packagemanager > to obtain pitivi from SFE?
SFE does not integrate with packagemanager. Instead it is just simply a collection of spec files that you can use to build various modules. It is pretty simple, though you need to do some work to set up your system to do building. You might also consider looking at blender, it is another nice video editing program that works on Solaris. The SFEblender.spec spec file in SFE can be used to build this. The SFEpitivi.spec spec file can be used to build pitivi. They both also have some dependencies that you would need to build. When you try to build either spec-file, it will complain if you do not have the dependencies installed, so you can easily identify which ones you need. The steps on how to do a build with spec files is here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building/ For example, you need to make sure you first install the latest Sun Studio compiler, and install the CBE which is available for download from the link at the above website. The only difference is that step 4 tells you to download the JDS Build Sources (spec-files) from svn.opensolaris.org. These spec files are used to build the packages that are already shipped in the latest OpenSolaris. These are useful if you want to do development work on any modules that are shipped with the OpenSolaris desktop, but this is not what you want to do. Instead, you want to access the spec-files-extra (SFE) repository and instructions are here: http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/ SFE works the same as spec-files, it just contains different modules. SFE contains modules that have not yet been integrated into Solaris or packagemanager such as pitivi and blender. Let us know if you have any problems building any SFE modules you want to build, and I am sure people will be happy to help. Brian
