> Hi there i need some tips,cause i'm a very newbie to > solaris > A friend of mine borrowed me a laptop,an Acer 9300 > AMD Turion64 > I installed the SolarisTM Express Developer Edition > my problems are: > Is there a black terminal like in linux or openbsd > ctrl+alt+F1...Fn?
No Solaris does not have Virtual consoles. The Terminal can be started by selecting : start>All aplications>system tools> terminal > why tar xzvf or jvf doesn't extract a bz2 or a gz > file? A bz2 file is extracted with bunzip2 > i relized that pkgadd is missed gcc either Gcc is in /usr/sfwbin/gcc Add /usr/sfw/bin to your PATH. > so i wanna compile MPlayer-1.0rc2 with sun studio > anyone can point to me how can i do that? > thanks very much for now You need to Install the Vermillion build environment http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/contributing/building/ http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/current/ http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/ http://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/ This message posted from opensolaris.org