Oh, in response to this: "I tried updating Firefox numerous times, creating 2 different boot environments at the same time, I wanted to remove them...the openSolaris help file told me to go to File -> Boot Environment Manager... but, alas, I couldn't even find File!...where is this "File" that the help was alluding to?"
This would refer to the Package Manager Boot Environment management interface (a nice GUI front end for the beadm commands). From the GNOME desktop, goto System -> Administration -> Package Manager, wait for it to open, then goto File -> Manage Boot Environments. See attached for a pic. Going from Windows to OpenSolaris is quite a leap, but then again I went from Mac OSX straight to Solaris 10 - was quite a shock, let me tell you :P Using Package Manager/IPS is handy to install applications but it's not mandatory, you might want to have a play around with simply installing packages via the command line (which is super easy). Just refer to the commands jondice posted (and you can always manually create a BE beforehand if you want). For example, if I want Opera on my system: 1) goto http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=solaris-intel&ver=9.64&local=y 2) download, say, "Static QT - pkg.z - 21.2 MB", which will save "opera-9.64.gcc3-static-qt3.pkg.Z" (compressed package file) 3) open up GNOME terminal 4) cd to the download location e.g. $ cd ~/Desktop 5) uncompress then install the package: $ uncompress opera-9.64.gcc3-static-qt3.pkg.Z $ pfexec pkgadd -d opera-9.64.gcc3-static-qt3.pkg Accept the prompts - et voila :) Also, seeing as you are coming from Windows be sure to check out Murray Blakeman's MPlayer packages for OpenSolaris - this very nicely fils a bit of a void for an easy multimedia player solution on OpenSolaris. On his page you can add his custom IPS repository to your package manager, then install MPlayer (and all its dependencies) with a single tick. Check it out: http://solaris.homeunix.com/?q=node/24 You can either use the commands on CLI as described in the link, or do the same using your Package Manager GUI. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: bemanage.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 14305 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20090803/c739ac7e/attachment.jpg>
