On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:05 -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > If you're missing something, an apt-get grabs it with the dependancies. This > system works very well. The problem with Nexentra is that many of the > standard packages of Debian are not ported at this time. They seem to have > taken quite a leap, and are well on their way.
true. but we are getting there. Nexenta Alpha 2 will likely have 3500+ packages available for immediate download. Meanwhile, one could search package sources at http://packages.ubuntu.com download *.tar.gz and *.diff.gz extract it, and do "dpkg-buildpackage". Example with mplayer: $ wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0-pre7cvs20050716.orig.tar.gz $ wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/m/mplayer/mplayer_1.0-pre7cvs20050716-0.1ubuntu9.diff.gz $ tar xzvf mplayer*.tar.gz $ cd mplayer-1.0-pre7 $ gzcat ../mplayer*.diff.gz | patch -p0 $ dpkg-buildpackage (coffe time) $ cd .. $ dpkg -i *.deb Note: all steps above assuming that you have working build environment and compiled and installed all mplayer requirements (see mplayer*/debian/control meta). i.e. pretty much any package from 18000+ packages of Ubuntu/Breezy will work *as is* or with minimal changes. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
