On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Andrew Myers <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
