Wednesday June 06, 2007
Trying out frkit
frkit is a tool that can be used to download the latest opensource applications related to "Solaris on a laptop" and manage them. The modules in the cuurent version of frkit include acpidrv,gnome battery applet, powernow and the gnome emi-freq applet. The user can choose to install all of them or select modules only. frkit is available on the OpenSolaris website. I downloaded frkit and while I haven't tried out the individual modules yet, here are the steps to download and install frkit.
1. Download frkit from here. (I copy/pasted the code into a file frkit).
2. The files are installed in /usr/sbin and /var/spool
3.One useful command to determine file type is the file command.
$ cd /usr/sbin
# file frkit
frkit : executable /bin/ksh script
4.Since frkit is an executable shell script, I had to give myself permissions before running it.
# chmod u+rwx frkit
5. Run frkit as root
# ./frkit
6. The files are in the form of .tar.gz Which means that the files are packaged with tar and compressed using gzip.
# gunzip frkit.tar.gz | tar -xf -
or
# tar -xzf frkit
which tells the tar command to call GNU gunzip
and then untar the files. This works only if the tar command on your
system supports the -z option.
or
# gunzip frkit.tar.gz
# tar -xf frkit.tar
frkit creates the directories in /var/spool.
# cd /var/spool/frkit
Under the downloads directory, the selected modules are located as .tar files.I will be writing more on this as I try out the modules, especially the battery module. Untar the files , run the modules and let me know your thoughts.
Posted at 10:24AM Jun 06, 2007 by Jyothi Srinath in Sun | Comments[4]
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