Abhishek Pratap wrote:
i am finding it difficult to manage the package management using pkgadd as
there are lot of dependency required packages where are not able to
install.
It's true that this can be annoying. There is a plan to fix this
though, apparently.
Also i am able to install only those packages which have the extension .pkg
and the rest with .tar.gz are not recognized as valid formats though i have
read it on many sites that they cud be isntalled.
As another poster replied earlier: maybe you should be more specific:
which .tar.gz file, and where did you get it from? There are at least
two possibilities:
1) It may be one or more Solaris packages (some of the ones from
opensolaris.org are in this format) in which case you first run "gzcat
foo.tar.gz | tar xfp -" and then run pkgadd on the files or directories
produced by this.
2) Or it may be some other software that's not in pkgadd format at all,
in which case you either need whatever other installer it's expecting,
or in some cases the gzcat/tar command may be the only install command,
for old fashioned code with no package installer.
Any one tried installing pkg-src on solaris 10 ????
Yes. Most people probably use Blastwave though (pkg-get).
www.blastwave.com.
Hugh.
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