Hi Madhan, Installing packages using the "pkg install" command is absolutely fine.
The problem here is to be download and archive the *.pkg (or whichever other format IPS uses) for later use (so that later I don't have to download the package again for installing and can install it from my local backup). Hope you get what I mean.. On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Madhan Kumar Balasubramanian <Madhan.Balasubramanian at sun.com> wrote: > Angad, > > I am not too sure but this should be the one: > > You should set the repo server to opensolaris.org and you can download the > pkgs. > > On the command line set: > > pkg set-authority=http://opensolaris.org opensolaris.org > > then you can use other pkg commands to install pkgs/distros. > > Best Regards, > Madhan Kumar > > Angad Singh wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> This is a question that has been bugging us since a long time now and >> needs an answer. >> >> Can we download *.pkg files from an IPS repository? >> >> This is absolutely necassary especially for university students like >> us where bandwidth is a major problem. We don't have resources to >> setup an IPS repository of our own so that's not a solution. It would >> be great if we can just download the pkg files from the repo somehow. >> >> Any clue? >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > -- Angad Singh http://blogs.sun.com/angad Sun Campus Ambassador Tech Lead
