Thanks Jan. That's very helpful. I'll try this all out tomorrow.
Best regards, Andrew > From: jso...@gmail.com > Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 07:32:19 -0600 > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Newbie Questions - Installing various > software > > On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Andrew Myers <li...@abmyers.com> wrote: > > I guess I'm a "newbie" although I've been using various Linux distro's for > > about 10 years. > > I'm a "newbie" to OI just like you, but I can answer some (not all) of > your questions. > > > > Firstly, I wanted to have a later version of Firefox installed, and I did > > this by downloading 11.0 from > > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/latest/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/. > > Is that the best way to upgrade? Is 3.6.12 the most recent in the > > "official" repo? > > Many of the packages (including the Firefox 3.6.12) are from when > OpenSolaris was still available. When it was forked to OpenIndiana, > the (limited) team of developers focused on packages that were > important to have a usable system. Since you found a build of Firefox > 11 for Solaris, that means that it's possible to build Firefox 11 for > OI, and it hasn't been done because no one has done it (yet). > > > > Similarly I wanted a jdk installed. I went to the Oracle download site, > > but the download for x64 is only 9.25MB. This doesn't seem right to me. > > How do you install JDK7 on OI? > > If I recall correctly, to install Java x64 on Solaris you must first > install the 32-bit version. The former uses the same libraries > (written in Java) and merely swaps out the virtual machine. Does 81MB > + 9MB sound about right? > > > > In the meantime I installed jdk 1.6 using the command pfexec pkg install > > jdk. > > > > Next, I'd like to install Eclipse. pkg search eclipse isn't showing me > > anything useful, and I can't find any solaris builds at eclipse.org. Do > > they not exist, or am I looking in the wrong place? > > Don't know. Sorry. I would assume you googled "eclipse solaris", found > this as the first hit, but it isn't what you want (?): > http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.7-201106131736/solPlatform.php > > > > I come from a Red Hat / Fedora background and I'm very used to installing > > most software using yum. Is pkg comparable to this? Or is the OI way more > > to download software individually and install it by hand? > > It's analogous to what you'd have with Red Hat. You can have several > repositories with various policies for including packages (the > official one, the "Sun Freeware" one, the "I'm not afraid of software > patents" one, and random ones you may find throughout the Internet). > As with Red Hat, this is the "preferred" way to get software, as you > can update it all with two simple commands: "pkg refresh" "pkg > update". > > As with Red Hat, specific software you want may be missing from the > repositories (or have the version of Firefox from when RHEL 5 was > originally released). You may be able to find ".pkg" files (the > equivalent of ".rpm") to install the software, registering it with the > package manager. In some cases, the only alternative is the ".tar.gz" > which may contain a prebuilt binary or even just the source code. > > > Jan > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
