There is now a Solaris utility called "lxrun" which allows linux binaries to run on Solaris. (I haven't tried it, though.)
HTH, --David On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:42:20PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Jaime Silvela wrote: > > > Hi, I've been using Debian 2.0 for over a year in my home PC and I > > think it's great. I like it so much that I would like to install it in > > the computer I use in college, which is a SPARC running Solaris, now > > that there is a SPARC Debian. > > > > However, they won't give me permission to do it, so I would like to at > > least install a few .deb packages (gtk+, the compilers...) on top of > > Solaris. Is that possible, or must I get the source code and compile? > > Has anybody tried this? > > > > You need to compile the packages from source. Linux and Solaris are > entirely different operating systems. The SPARC Debian is still using the > Linux kernel. Solaris uses the SunOS 5 kernel. Solaris wouldn't have a > clue about what to do with Linux binaries. > > You should not have any trouble getting the packages to compile from > source. However, it probably won't do you any good to build .deb files. > You'll need to compile and install dpkg, and the admins there probably > won't give you access to the preferred system directories, so you'll have > to do some hacking to force dpkg to keep everything contained within > directories that you've got access to. > > Even if you are able to get the necessary directory trees in place for > package installation, the dependencies would really get in the way. For > example, gcc depends on binutils, which depends on ldso. ldso is the > runtime linker. It would really not be possible to install the Linux > runtime linker on top of solaris, even if there was some kind of binary > compatibility standard. > > noah > > PGP public key available at > http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html > or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > iQCVAwUBN+Zj8IdCcpBjGWoFAQGRwAP9FSvzLeMcj/L2PEVBRpR+3T7MzihZg8tO > GOv2NWVnLPdSyrknMVqdoLzdefEcTTa9O4xzB8To/cREIxtLgm64fTv9XAQHFzd3 > fNrCm2R83sb37r7Y+HHDWhDI+bYuGVGBBvrl9wAql8QagFq+kFvXyWj5I7abxt5m > vHFLIACjORs= > =o55s > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- David Karlin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funk48.home.travelin.com Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
