Released 20110906 package is now for solaris 9 code still runs on solaris 8 package is now archall pkgutil, bldcat and chkcat run through perlcritic and perltidy exit codes in pkgutil cleaned up. This is the official site for pkgutil, the easy to use, yet fully featured, installation tool for solaris csw packages. Chapter 25 about packages and patches on a solaris system with. These were the native packages on solaris 10 and are available as a legacy feature in solaris 11. Gnucobol formerly opencobol discussion help getting. The pkgutil program is a replacement for the pkg get program which is a solaris update program loosely based on aptget. Manages csw packages svr4 format on solaris 10 and 11. Pkgutil is an advanced packaging system, which resolves dependency on installation. Install the pkgutil package from opencsw as root by following these instructions. Bookmark this page, in case you get an email from cran about your package failing on solaris.
Released 20110911 fix bug with how gpg is called ben walton v2. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. The only exception is the two gigabit ethernet ports, marvell 88e8001, and marvell 88e8056. Systems that contain the most recent security fixes provide a more secure computing environment. If device2 is a file, a datastream package will be created. Solaris and r vanderbilt biostatistics wiki vanderbilt university. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Using pkgutil on solaris with puppet for easy package management ive been using puppet on linux systems for some time now, but ive only just started using it in a solaris environment. For easy access to opencsw programs, put optcswbin in front of path, and optcswshareman in front of manpath. Pkgutil, written in perl and licensed under gpl, is a tool to make installation of packages in solaris. The remote host is missing sun security patch number 11978344 description vulnerability in the solaris component of oracle sun products suite subcomponent. It has mainly been tested on solaris 10 sparc, though it is built for and has been tested minimally on solaris 10 x86, solaris 9 sparcx86 and 11 sparcx86.
The library issue very likely occurs when using the solaris studio, therefore i used the opencsw archive to get everything needed berkeleydb can be skipped if you dont need isam and add withoutdb to configure. Assuming youve got started with opencsw and added optcswbin to path, you can. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. Solaris dvds are not in the opencsw format and pkgutil cant use them. It handles package dependencies so all required packages are installed before the desired. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. It works very nice for opencsw packages, but what if one wants to install a sunw, that is, a sunprovided package. Administering cve updates in oracle solaris oracle.
If you call rhubplatforms youll see two solaris builders. The gist of using software from this site is using a utility called pkgutil, another solaris package that aids installation of software packages listed on this site. Extends pkgutil functionality libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by pkgutil. Both pkg get and pkgutil automatically resolve and download dependencies. The instructions that i found on line want me to use pkgutil which i dont have either. It handles package dependencies so all required packages are. My place to go is, where users can download a boatload of free software for solaris x8664. With ips, you can update all of the packages on your system that have available updates, or you can update individual packages that are not constrained by the system. Virtualbox seems to be the best way to get solaris 10 running on a virtual. The open community software project opencsw is an opensource project providing solaris binary packages of freely available or opensource software it is an association in terms of article 6079 of the swiss civil code with domicile in greifenseezh, switzerland. I think one of the killer functions of puppet is being able to easily install packages and manage services on a system. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
You can either specify the common name found on the first column or the package name in the 2nd column, both seem to work. Salt was added to the opencsw package repository in september of 2012 by romeo theriault at version 0. Pkgutil, written in perl and licensed under gpl, is a tool to make installation of csw packages in solaris easier. Packagesrelated problem with csw pkgutil on solaris 10 u11. Here are step by step instructions for compiling gcc 4. Alternatives implementation specific to opencsw common. Opencsw provides a software stack which allows to build catalogs with solaris packages, and use a utility, such as pkg get or pkgutil to download and install packages together with all the dependencies. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase.
On solaris 10, you can do that by editing the etcdefaultlogin file, uncomment the path and supath variables definition, adjust the values as required and log out and back in as the list is quite long and you probably have an idea what you are looking for the list can be fuzzy. See this talk by uwe ligges if you want to know more about the motivation for. If a package is constrained, an appropriate message indicating why it has been constrained is provided. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. It needs to be installed manually once, after that all maintenance is done via pkgutil. Blastwave has recently replaced pkg get by pkgutil. Sunw packages in an opencswformat catalog maciej blizinski. Dr to check your package on solaris, call rhubcheck as usual and choose one of our solaris builders. The s option in your first command tells pkgtrans to translate the package into a datastream package on device2 the target if the device2 argument is a directory, then a filesystem type package will be placed in the directory. Using pkgutil on solaris with puppet for easy package.
Or better said, solaris supports almost completely the p5qe motherboard and the nvidia graphic card. There are two package management tools, pkg get and pkgutil. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. In the patch system test lab, we currently have solaris 10 systems with 7gb used in var and this will continue to grow over the lifetime of solaris 10.
Opencsw uses a tool named pkgutil on top of the solaris packaging utilities to automatically download, install and update packages. Oracle solaris oracle solaris is a nonfree unix operating system. When the packages are uploaded on mos, you can find the package by doing the advanced product search on solaris operating system, select the solaris 10 release and do a description filter on sudo. The purpose of the association is to provide software packages that run on currently supported production versions of the solaris. Downloads perl and its dependencies for solaris 10 on i386 to the. This example shows the path to use if you are not running at least the solaris 10 1008 release. The oracle solaris 10 and 11 os installation or the foss does not include the lsof package. Pkgutil, written in perl and licensed under gpl, is a tool to make installation of packages in solaris easier. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Most packages that i have installed come from the cd and are the unix and linux forums.
Package is now for solaris 9 code still runs on solaris 8 package is now archall. If there is insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. Pkgadd patch 110934110935 for solaris 8 and 17 114568 for. Updating the software on your oracle solaris 11 system. When the patchadd command is used to add a patch to a package installed by using the pkgadd command with the. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. Pkgadd patch 110934110935 for solaris 8 and 17114568 for solaris 9. Theres a few alternatives available on how to get and install pkgutil.