Steve Laurie wrote:
Go to http://sunfreeware.com/ and download the pre-built package for
your platform/version of SunOS/Solaris
EASY!!!
Not so easy - very hard and very frustrating:
First I have to decipher the SunOS version given by uname (5.9)
and translate to the corresponding Solaris version (e.g., 2.9). Then, there
is no current vim binary for that old a version of Solaris. The site only
has vim version 6.3 or 4 for that Solaris, and the current version is 7.3.
So if I want the current version, I have to compile it - somehow?
Not to be deterred, I download something called, vim-7.3-sol9-sparc-local.gz
for a later version of Solaris. Maybe I will get lucky and it will run?
But wait - more trouble. I `un' gzip the file, giving me a single file
called, vim-7.3-sol9-sparc-local of size, 24 megabytes!
This is clearly an archive package of many files. But no suffix to show what
kind of compression or software packed it. How to unpack this? I try tar,
but this does not work. I see this inside the file:
# PaCkAgE DaTaStReAm
SMCvim 1 49376
# end of header
I see it wants to use /usr/local as a base directory to unpack, but I am not
the administrator and can not write to that directory!
So how in the blank, do I unpack this to a directory I can write to? What
software to use, and what variables to set?
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