Perfect. Thanks for the info. Michael System Administrator PlugandPlayTechCenter 440 N. Wolfe Rd, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 524-1419
-----Original Message----- From: Alan Coopersmith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 9:33 AM To: Michael Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [osol-help] how to install bash? Michael wrote: > It's been years since I worked with Solaris, and recently I find myself > managing a couple Solaris boxes. > > A couple questions: > > 1. How to tell if it's running Solaris versus OpenSolaris? Here's what I see > when I look at uname and /etc/release: > > r...@sunbackup # cat /etc/release > Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u3wos_10 X86 > r...@sunbackup # uname -a > SunOS sunbackup 5.10 Generic_125101-05 i86pc i386 i86pc That's Solaris 10, as the release file says. OpenSolaris releases said "OpenSolaris" and have uname "5.11" > 2. I'm a bash guy! How do I install bash? I'm assuming there must be some > package management tools in Solaris. Can someone give me the quick-and-dirty > to downloading and installing GNU bash? Find your OS install media and pkgadd the SUNWbash package from there. Solaris 10 didn't have a public online repository for the OS packages, though there are a number of third party repositories such as SunFreeware and Blastwave that produce their own packages - but those would be supported by those repos, not as part of your Solaris support, while the OS packaged one is covered. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ install-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
