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The default Live CD OpenSolaris installation does not come with GNU gcc. Therefore, you need to install it by yourself.

Go to System->Administration->Package Manager

Search for gcc

Tick SUNWgcc and click Install

that's simple =)

well, I just visited youtube and found out that I need to install Flash player in order to watch the video there.

How to install - step-by-step

1. When you visit youtube and do not have Flash player installed, youtube will point you to Adobe website where you download the Solaris version of flash player to your machine.

2. Untar that file.

3. Open terminal.

4. #su

5. cp <place you untar ur downloaded player>/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/

6. restart firefox

Hi all,

You may notice that the default music and video players in OpenSolaris is not so good. They cannot play many file types. Therefore, I install VLC.

How to install - step by step:

1. Open terminal.

2. #su (to have root privilege)

3. # pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.lifewithsolaris.jp:10000/ lifeiwthsolaris.jp

4. # pkg refresh --full

5. # pkg install LWSvlc

It will automatically install VLC on ur machine.

Source: http://lifewithsolaris.jp/modules/packages/index.php?content_id=3

hi all,

Remember the last post I said that I need to purchase new NIC card to get internet connection since OpenSolaris does not support my card? I would like to inform you guys that I already got internet connection already.

Murayama just updated new driver for nVidia. I went to his website http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/ and download ngo driver.

Then I followed the guide here to install the driver http://www.linuxdynasty.org/basic-networking-howto-on-opensolaris.html

After step 16, I got internet connection already.

However, after I reboot my machine, I don't have internet anymore. Googled tell me that I should delete dhcp.nfo0 since dctp cannot be configure that way http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=4749

Hope that help for those who has same problem like me.

Regards,