Why don't blastwave packages realize that there are sun packages? I installed vim, fileutils (can't live without colored 'ls'), and gkrellm. gkrellm requires some gtk library CSWgtk (but it ignores the fact SUNWGtkr and SUNWGtku are installed. Moreover, a while back, I made a mistake of trying to upgrade to gnome 2.16 (the sol express that I was running had 2.14) using blastwave. Rather than upgrading the existing gnome, it installed a whole new instance of gnome. Of course after doing so, my system got confused and gnome services wouldn't start properly... oh, the pain I went through to fix that...
What IS the best way to upgrade software? I've tried Live Upgrade, but the first time I tried, the upgraded partition wouldn't boot correctly, and since it's installing the entire root all over again, it takes a really long time. Is there an EASY way to manage upgrade? I've been a Debian user for the last 6 years or so and I fell in love with apt-get. Is there something similar? pkg-get doesn't work since it doesn't really play nicely with Sun packages. I heard that GnuSolaris is using apt-get but when I was trying to install it, it wanted to wipe out other partitions where Debian and windows reside. Moreover, how well does GnuSolaris work with opensolaris installation and development? Any insight into any of these matter would be greatly appreciated! This message posted from opensolaris.org
