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
In command 3, you transposed i and w in lifewithsolaris.jp on the end. Otherwise, these commands worked great! Thanks for posting them.
Posted by SamCo on December 01, 2008 at 12:30 PM SGT #
I think the guy who put together this package has done a great job. Unfortunately his repository is down most of the time judging from the postings on the internet. Maybe he runs his repository off his laptop. :-)
Posted by JohnnyD on March 04, 2009 at 04:31 PM SGT #
Hi, I've got this:
root@osoldesktop:~# pkg set-authority -O http://pkg.lifewithsolaris.jp:10000/ lifeiwthsolaris.jp
pkg: The origin URIs for 'lifeiwthsolaris.jp' do not appear to point to a valid pkg server.
Please check the server's address and client's network configuration.
Additional details:
Unable to contact valid package server: http://pkg.lifewithsolaris.jp:10000/
Encountered the following error(s):
Transport errors encountered when trying to contact depot server. Reported the following errors:
IO Error while communicating with 'lifeiwthsolaris.jp': Retryable socket error: (146, 'Connection refused'). (happened 4 times)
Do you know another server???
Posted by Carlos on September 18, 2009 at 12:53 AM SGT #