Erwin Panen wrote: > Hi forum, > > Totally new to OSOL but have some Linux background. > I'm missing some commands such as locate. > Some searching learned locate is packed in findutils. (sunfreeware.com)
IIRC, sunfreeware.com publishes SysV packages, so what you need to do is download the package in question, unpack/uncompress/whatever and then do "pkgadd -d <directory of package> <pkgname>" > What 's the appropriate way to get this installed and take into account > dependencies? I don't know about automatic dependency handling. > Is it possible to add 'repositories' and to install from them? > Does some apt-get equivalent exist? that's the "pkg" command; see "man pkg" for details, subcommands etc. There's also a gui, the Update Manager, that you can find under System->Administration. HTH Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
