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Install desktop on solaris zone to enable access to firefox

Hi
We have a Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5220 Server running SunOS5.10. There are no desktops installed on either the main global zone or the appzone that I wish to work on.

I have googled a lot and found commands that do not work, for example:

I tried:
# pkg install slim_install
but receive the error:
pkg: not found

there were some others.

Any ideas?

johnsone

I believe the Solaris command would be "pkgadd", not "pkg install".

MongolianNoseFlute

ASKER

cheers for that, it seemed to work but I receive:

pkgadd: ERROR: no packages were found in </var/spool/pkg>

johnsone

Here is the documentation for pkgadd:

http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pkgadd+1

I have only run the command a few times myself, but the basic form should be this:

pkgadd -d <full_path_to_dir> all

In the directory that you are specifying as full_path_to_dir, you put all the package files you want to install. Alternately, you could put the package files in /var/spool/pkg, which is the default location.

Sandy

You can install KDE and for that you can download from here

http://solaris.kde.org/

TY/SA

MongolianNoseFlute

ASKER

I will give KDE a go

@johnsone - the main issue I face is that I dont have the packages to install them.

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