Pkgutil, written in perl and licensed under gpl, is a tool to make installation of csw packages in solaris easier. My place to go is, where users can download a boatload of free software for solaris x8664. Sometimes your solaris servers dont have direct internet access but you have linux servers that does. I managed to install the catalog file by hand, so all packages are now seemingly recognized by pkgutil as proven by doing pkgutil catinfo. With a few simple steps, you can actually build an opencsw compatible repository of solaris packages and tell pkgutil to use it, rather than the standard opencsw one. Solved packagesrelated problem with csw pkgutil on solaris. It is capable of ensuring pkgutil from opencsw installed, and specifying a mirror and some other parameters. It was designed for opencsw, which is a repository for open source packages on solaris and also the best place to install puppet from. The open community software project opencsw is an opensource project providing solaris binary packages of freely available or opensource software it is an association in terms of article 6079 of the swiss civil code with domicile in greifenseezh, switzerland. Extends pkgutil functionality libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by pkgutil.
The opencsw site has a command that will download the packages from the internet. Moving the awk command is needed because of a borkedbroken awk command is used as standard in solaris. Please use this list first for issues with pkgutil itself, blastwave and opencsw really only package pkgutil and shouldnt get support requests for the software. At the moment we have opencsw and opencsw official where the latter gets the generation. Since you know how to get the packages from opencsw mirror, you can now follow the steps to download the package and install it. Can i download solaris packages directly from opencsw. Sunw packages in an opencswformat catalog maciej blizinski. Is there a way i can do this for solaris opencsw packages i dont have administrator privileges on our solaris machine and want to try and extract the binaries from the packages. I managed to install a few of them by hand using pkgadd but i would like to use their pkgutil application so all dependencies would install themselves automatically, installin. Here are some rough ideas on how i think it should be. It is capable of ensuring pkgutil from opencsw installed, and specifying a mirror and some. Contribute to pythoncpython development by creating an account on github. This is the official site for pkgutil, the easy to use, yet fully featured, installation tool for solaris csw packages.
Solaris packages pkgutil wrapper around pkgadd pkgrm automatic download automatic dependency resolution for opencsw packages, but also other noncsw packages use cswpkgutilplus donnerstag, 10. It works very nice for opencsw packages, but what if one wants to install a sunw, that is, a sunprovided package. You can then configure pkgutil on the restricted machines to use your internal package mirror. The generated one will have differences to the one synced back. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by xz. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by rdist. Hook scripts to log package maintenance actions gnupg. This had to be installed from a 3rd party like opencsw.
Here are some quick use cases where pkgutil can be used. Jul 05, 2015 pkgutil is now more efficient during upgrades by doing all pkgrm operations before all pkgadd operations. Note also that pkgutil files can output names of important directories shared with other programs, e. Opencsw aims to produce an easy to use open source software distribution installable on top of solaris and solarisbased systems, developed by a transparent and democratic community. Opencsw a fork of blastwave, run by one of its founders, phil brown.
Blastwave have had a number of issues in their catalogs, both unstable and stable. The purpose of the association is to provide software packages that run on currently supported production. You can get more details about how to install pkgutil on solaris 9 and newer here. Mar 11, 2009 my place to go is, where users can download a boatload of free software for solaris x8664. Sysv packages sunfreeware can be used with pkgget but has no dependency resolution, just the download and installation of single packages can be automated. The build recipes were published in the past, but are no longer accessible.
Sometimes during install pkgutil stalls forever until running out of memory version 1. The pkgutil program is a replacement for the pkgget program which is a solaris update program loosely based on aptget. First, install pkgutil using pkgadd solaris default package manager. The oracle solaris 10 and 11 os installation or the foss does not include the lsof package. Solved packagesrelated problem with csw pkgutil on.
Note that you need to be root to actually install anything, pkgutil allows you to download stuff and query the catalog and so on as a regular user but solaris demands root privileges to modify the package database pkgadd. Both pkgget and pkgutil automatically resolve and download. How to install git in ubuntu or any linux or unix distributions git to install please type the command depends on. This is a puppet module for managing opencsw pkgutil. Opencsw greatly varies in terms of how current its various packages are. Theres also a users list for opencsw that you may be interested in.
Configures the local the local pkgutil installation to point at the open community software project opencsw package repository. Opencsw is dedicated to working closely with upstream projects to improve portability of open source software. By default opencsw uses its testing distribution, which has a rolling release model. Released 20100310 add pparam option to override configuration options from pkgutil. Normally you just have to download and replace optcswbin pkgutil itself but you can also check if other files have changed. Pkgutil, written in perl and licensed under gpl, is a tool to make installation of packages in solaris easier. Alternatives implementation specific to opencsw common.
Youll see how pkgutil downloads many different packages and repacks them. Jul 18, 2017 for the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. The gist of using software from this site is using a utility called pkgutil, another solaris package that aids installation of software packages listed on this site. This cookbook provides a package provider which will installremove packages using pkgutil. Deep sleep music 247, calm music, insomnia, sleep therapy, sleep meditation, relax, study, sleep body mind zone 8,259 watching live now. Hi, i use solaris 10 u11 sparc version, and i have a packagerelated problem. You can then configure pkgutil on the restricted machines to use your internal. Using pkgutil on solaris with puppet for easy package. It is easiest to install git on linux using the preferred package manager of your linux distribution. This can be useful to get information about various packages and files. Apr, 2014 online training course mcitp, mcsa, mcse, ethical hacking,ccna, backtrack ethical hacking video tutorial follow me on.
The optional cryptographic verification will also be enabled for the repository. Download the latest version of the script to your home directory. All this being said, we envision a gar wrapper utility that. Opencsw provides a software stack which allows to build catalogs with solaris packages, and use a utility, such as pkgget or pkgutil to download and install packages together with all the dependencies. Solaris dvds are not in the opencsw format and pkgutil. Download the package from the mirror to a temporary folder and also download each dependencies with that particular package. How to use wget to install packages from opencsw in solaris.
Produces a png, gif, or jpeg image with thumbnails of each frame grouped into a montage. If you prefer to build from source, you can find tarballs on. The pkgutil module includes functions for working with python packages. Anyway this command allows you to download the packages and install them on anther server.
Then you can use pkgutil to download packages intelligently for you on a linux host. Nov 23, 2011 for the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. Pkgutil is not designed for linux though so you have to do some steps before it works. Configure solarissparcv9cc m32 shared openssldir usrlocalssl prefix usrlocalssl make make test make install freeradius. Sep 27, 2015 pkgutil can be used to query mac os x installer packages on mac. Thats ok if you use rmdir as this script does, because it wont remove empty directories. Dec 08, 2017 how to install git in ubuntu or any linux or unix distributions git to install please type the command depends on. It needs to be installed manually once, after that all maintenance is done via pkgutil. Add pkgutil provider, which should be available in puppet 2. In this article, we will explore installing the packages from opencsw a community project with a lot of popular open source software.