I am running Solaris 9.

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 -----Original Message-----
From: Iain MacDonnell [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:29 PM
To: James, Denise
Cc: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] pkgadd not working with firefox
pkgdownload--must use pkgtrans



James, Denise wrote on 03/26/07 11:26 AM:
> I was unable to use the pkg version of firefox until the local Sun 
> engineer told me to use the command pkgtrans -n <filename> .  (that is
a 
> dot next to filename).  Once I did this, I was able to pkgadd 
> MOZfirefox.  Not sure if this is something I was supposed to know, but

> I'd never heard of the pkgtrans command.  I didn't see it in the
install 
> instructions so I was wondering was there some other way around this?

What Solaris release are you running? If it's Solaris Express build 58
thru 60 or so, there was a known issue[1] with pkgadd of datasteam
packages. The workaround was to use pkgtrans to convert them to "file
system" format first. Generally, pkgadd should be able to process both
formats of package, and you wouldn't have to use pkgtrans...

     ~Iain

[1] http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6525537

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