Tom Vacek wrote:
> Thank you. I was missing SUNWxwinc.
>
> I'm new to oSol, and sometimes I've found it hard to figure out what packages
> might provide what I'm missing. In Linux, I would look for a -dev or -devel
> (Debian or RH, respectively) package, but over here things aren't so easy.
> Mostly, I can grep out what I need, but sometimes I'm reduced to scanning
> through the entire list packages trying to find something that looks right.
> (Grep-ing for "x" doesn't help much, for instance.) This was the first time
> I was flummoxed. It would be nice be able to sort available packages by
> category.
Many older package names come from the days when Solaris packages were
limited to a total of 9 characters, of which 3-4 were used for the
package creators symbol (like SUNW for Sun packages, CSW for Blastwave
packages, etc.). While this was expanded to 32 characters a number
of years ago, most older packages were not renamed to take advantage
of it.
One of the upcoming plans for OpenSolaris is to massively rename and
refactor packages, giving more useful names and combining the man pages,
development files (.h/.pc/etc.) and runtime files into a single package
for each component, while letting the user filter out which bits they
do and don't want (so you can tell IPS if you want the development files
or not). That's a big task though, and I don't know when it will be
done.
In this case however, all you really needed to do was ask IPS via:
pkg search -r x11.pc
(-r so it searches the repo, not just the packages you've already
installed.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
