OpenCSW is an alternative packet resource for Solaris. You can install many open source (GNU) packages to Solaris 10 and it comes with an installer (pkg-get) which is easy to use and resolves dependencies.
So this is how I added opencsw support to Soalris 10:
- If you`re behind a proxy you have to set HTTPPROXY and HTTPPROXYPORT env:
export HTTPPROXY=<servername>
export HTTPPROXYPORT=8080 - Now you can install the OpenCSW packet:
pkgadd -d http://www.opencsw.org/pkg_get.pkg - This didn`t work for me because it couldn`t communicate with our proxy. So I had to get the packet with wget:
export http_proxy=http://<proxyserver>:<proxyport>
/usr/sfw/bin/wget http://www.opencsw.org/pkg_get.pkg
pkgadd -d pkg_get.pkg - Now you should edit /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf and set the proxy parameters as well as setting the url config parameter to point to a mirror closer to you:
ftp_proxy=http://<proxyserver>:<proxyport>
http_proxy=http://<proxyserver>:<proxyport>
export http_proxy ftp_proxy
url=http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/current - You can find a list of mirrors here.
- Now its a good time to update your packets (we first include /opt/csw/bin in our PATH. You can also make this persistent by setting this in your shells rc file.)
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/csw/bin
pkg-get -u
Now you have OpenCSW installed. Get a list of all available packets with “pkg-get -a” and install it with “pkg-get -i <packetname>”. To remove a packet, you should use the built-in Solaris command “pkgrm”.
Ihsan Dogan · June 23, 2010 at 1:32 pm
As a good alternative to pkg-get, I can recommend pkgutil. It’s also fully supported by OpenCSW, but besides the speed improvement, it has also more features.
–> http://pkgutil.wikidot.com/get-install-and-configure