Hello, For those of us who look for additional software and are familiar with BSD systems, here is another way to install software : the Netbsd Package Collection (pkgsrc). pkgsrc has supported solaris for years and is still usable with opensolaris.
It can be used for 2 things: -installing binary packages -building the software from source automatically using distfiles (think recipes) provided by the port maintainer. Installing a binary packages is similar to the traditional solaris way, but will also take care of downloading the package from a mirror according to the PKG_PATH variable? : ----------------------------- pkg_add nameofthesoftwares (notice the "_" in the command name) ----------------------------- Downloading and installing the software from sources would take only 3 commands providing you have previously downloaded or synced the distfiles (think recipes) : ----------------------------- cd /path/of/your/pkgsrc/distfile/category/nameofthesoftware make make install ----------------------------- Installing the binary package will not take care of the dependencies, installing from source will. Additionally, you can use pkgin which is a third party tool to manage pkgsrc packages in more or less the same way as yum or apt on linux distros using commands like avail, list, search, install, upgrade, remove, show-deps... Here are 3 blog entries that show how to install pkgsrc on opensolaris : http://www.skytale.net/blog/archives/15-Using-pkgsrc-on-Opensolaris,-Part-1.html http://www.skytale.net/blog/archives/16-Using-pkgsrc-on-Opensolaris,-Part-2.html http://www.skytale.net/blog/archives/17-Using-pkgsrc-on-Opensolaris,-Part-3.html The pkgsrc official guide : http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/ Netbsd host a mirror of pkgsrc packages for Solaris 10 which could be used with opensolaris : http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/SunOS/i386/5.10_2009Q3/ pkgin : http://imil.net/pkgin/ Have fun ! -- Thomas Leveille
