On 10.06.10 05:45, Andy Kittson wrote:
So I am really new to OpenSolaris. This may sound like a crazy and beat
like a dead horse thread but I am having trouble. Through Firefox I have
downloaded programs like Opera and Adobe Flash. It puts it in the
download folders and I have been able to run them within that folder. I
would like to know what the trick is for either installing these apps or
moving them to a more permanent folder and creating shortcuts. If anyone
can help it would be appreciated.
that depends on how the software is delivered - if it's a "simple" .tar
file (ie not a package) for application "bla", and assuming 'tar tvf <.tar
file>' prints a list of files starting with "bla/" (note the trailing "/"),
then the simplest thing to do would be
$ cd /opt; pfexec tar xf ~/download/bla.tar
which will create a directory /opt/bla for you. in the standard case,
/opt/bla/bin will contain the binaries, so just add that to your path.
ideally though, you'll get a SysV-pkg (the file cmd will tell you "package
datastream" if it is), which can be installed using the pkgadd command, thus:
$ pfexec pkadd -d ~/download/bla.pkg
HTH
Michael
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