Instalation of IPS freeware SW into OpenSolaris or Indiana

Pondělí V 05, 2008

New SUN IPS packaging with network based repositories simplify installation of third-party SW to OpenSolaris or Indiana, you don't need any more to deal with Companion CD or manual packages + dependencies download, install. Great !

1) There are two main proved my time sources for Free Solaris related stuff

• Freeware for Solaris
• Open Source Software for Solaris

2) Both popular sources also provide new IPS based repositories

• http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000
• http://blastwave.network.com:10000/

3) Check if IPS repos are OK and what packages are there

Note: I will personally set up only one REPO, but here for demo purpose I will set up both.

Go to URLs with WEB browser, you will get IPS repository summary and latest IPS packages list, see following:

From SunFreware (Use IPSSF as IPS pkgs prefix)

  pkg server ok
 
 Statistics
 Number of packages: 686
 Number of in-flight transactions: 10

 Number of catalogs served: 133
 Number of manifests served: 3596
 Number of files served: 17
 Number of flists requested: 1178
 Number of files served by flist: 75784
 Number of packages renamed: 0

 Catalog
 pkg:/IPSFWgcmn@0.5.11,5.11-2.15:20080215T052251Z
 ....

From BlastWave (Use IPS as IPS pkgs prefix)

 pkg server ok
     
 Statistics    
 Number of packages: 49
 Number of in-flight transactions: 59

 Number of catalogs served: 27
 Number of manifests served: 1019
 Number of files served: 0
 Number of flists requested: 1877
 Number of files served by flist: 86341
 Number of packages renamed: 0

 Catalog
     
 pkg:/IPSbzip2@0.5.11,5.11-2.11:20080220T042824Z
 ....

As you can see some packages are not converted yet to IPS, reason are dependencies. For example my favorite MC (Midnight Commander) is still missing :-(

4) Add Free repositories to your IPS / PKG tools configuration

pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000 sunfreeware
pkg set-authority -O http://blastwave.network.com:10000 blastwave

pkg authority -H
  blastwave                                 http://blastwave.network.com:10000/
  sunfreeware                               http://pkg.sunfreeware.com:9000/
  opensolaris.org (preferred)               http://pkg.opensolaris.org/

pkg refresh

5) Lets install some Free stuff

For example popular terminal SW screen (demonstrating dry-run and automatic selection of dependencies)

pkg search -r  screen
 INDEX      ACTION    VALUE                     PACKAGE
 basename   dir       opt/sfw/share/screen      pkg:/IPSFWscrn@0.5.11-2.15

pkg install -n -v IPSFWscrn
 Before evaluation: 
  UNEVALUATED:
  +pkg://sunfreeware/IPSFWscrn@0.5.11,5.11-4.29:20080430T013632Z

 After evaluation:
  None -> pkg://sunfreeware/IPSFWscrn@0.5.11,5.11-4.29:20080430T013632Z
  None -> pkg://sunfreeware/IPSFWter@0.5.11,5.11-4.29:20080430T013329Z
  None -> pkg://sunfreeware/IPSFWncur@0.5.11,5.11-4.29:20080430T013201Z

pkg install IPSFWscrn
 DOWNLOAD                                    PKGS       FILES     XFER (MB)
 IPSFWscrn                                   0/3       0/1726     0.00/7.26        

6) Want more free stuff in IPS format and How you can help ?

• Contact Steven M. Christensen for SunFreeware.com
• Conctact Dennis Clarke for Blastwave.org

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Posted at 03:01odp. V 05, 2008 by natiku in Virtualization
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