Solaris Installation-installing all the tools

[jayvo]

I have gotten Solaris 8 on an Intel machine and now I need to hunt down and figure out where to start. I need to install such things as gunxip, curl, gcc. etc but where can i start. I got the gz files but without a compiler i can't do much. Can anyone point me in the right directions. I am so used to FreeBSD and its port collections where everything is already in place. Please Help!!!!



jayvo

 

[lancer73]

http://www.sunfreeware.com

 

[Butterfly123]

U can also get loads of freeware source code from

http://www.gnu.org,

along with sunfreeware.com.

Regds - Hemant
Networking and Systems Integration Group
Satyam Computer Services Ltd

 

[astin]

its a nightmare - I had exactly the same problem yesterday and am rapidly going off solaris...
in any case jayvo - im assuming you have access to the cd's (I needed them).
On one of the software CDs you should find a directory called 'Product' I think.
Under this there should be loads of directories, all preceeded with SUNWxxxxxx, e.g. SUNWgzip (or something like that).
Dont ask me how to copy the directories accross, I got fed up messing around with the syntax and went into CDE to copy/paste
in any case once youve pasted them, do
pkgadd...(then the filename - I did gunzip). I think if you leave it blank it tries to do the lot.
Also, pls check that the SUNWxxxxx files are in the correct place on your hard drive - if they are not, pkgadd will complain (but at least it well tell you the correct place to copy the files.
In any case, gunzip works fine on my machine now..

 

[KenCunningham]

Shame about your bad intro. astin, I'm sure it'll grow on you over time (but then, slo does fungus!). Just to clarify, you can run pkgadd from anywhere by using the -d option to tell it the directory (or device) to pick up the packages from, eg

pkgadd -d /usr/local/<package>

HTH.