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Installing pkgutil and webmin on Solaris

pkgutil

blastwave.org is a group of people who create Open Source software packages for the Solaris Operating System. Ensure you the right package for your Architecture.

They use to provide a tool called pkg-get to download Solaris packages, but that tool fell into legal troubles and has now been abandoned. The replacement tool is called pkgutil. It can be downloaded here:
http://www.blastwave.org/howto.html

It can be installed using the following:

# mkdir packages # cd packages/ # /usr/sfw/bin/wget http://blastwave.network.com/csw/pkgutil_sparc.pkg --13:10:04-- http://blastwave.network.com/csw/pkgutil_sparc.pkg => `pkgutil_sparc.pkg' Connecting to blastwave.network.com:80... connected! HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 347,136 [application/octet-stream] 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 14% @ 49.75 KB/s 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 29% @ 82.64 KB/s 100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 44% @ 107.30 KB/s 150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 58% @ 163.93 KB/s 200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 73% @ 164.47 KB/s 250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 88% @ 29.64 KB/s 300K .......... .......... .......... ......... 100% @ 62.40 KB/s 13:10:14 (67.83 KB/s) - `pkgutil_sparc.pkg' saved [347136/347136] # pkgadd -d ./pkgutil_sparc.pkg The following packages are available: 1 CSWpkgutil pkgutil - Installs Solaris packages easily (sparc) 1.6.1,REV=2009.06.15 Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: Processing package instance <CSWpkgutil> from </packages/pkgutil_sparc.pkg> pkgutil - Installs Solaris packages easily (sparc) 1.6.1,REV=2009.06.15 Please see /opt/csw/share/doc/pkgutil/license for license information. ## Processing package information. ## Processing system information. ## Verifying disk space requirements. ## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed. ## Checking for setuid/setgid programs. This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user permission during the process of installing this package. Do you want to continue with the installation of <CSWpkgutil> [y,n,?] y Installing pkgutil - Installs Solaris packages easily as <CSWpkgutil> ## Installing part 1 of 1. /etc/opt/csw/pkgutil.conf.CSW /opt/csw/bin/bldcat /opt/csw/bin/chkcat /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil /opt/csw/etc/pkgutil.conf.CSW /opt/csw/libexec/pkgutil/wget /opt/csw/share/doc/pkgutil/license /opt/csw/share/doc/pkgutil/readme /opt/csw/share/man/man1/bldcat.1 /opt/csw/share/man/man1/chkcat.1 /opt/csw/share/man/man1/pkgutil.1 /var/opt/csw/pkgutil/admin.CSW [ verifying class <none> ] ## Executing postinstall script. Installation of <CSWpkgutil> was successful.

If you add /opt/csw/bin path you can use pkgutil and all the software downloaded from blastwave.

webmin

webmin is great web management console for administering unix machines brought to you by the good people of http://www.webmin.com/. There is Solaris package of it that can be downloaded and installed. Ensure you the right package for your Architecture.

# mkdir packages # cd packages/ # /usr/sfw/bin/wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.480.pkg.gz pkgadd -d webmin-1.480.pkg WSwebmin ... Installation of <WSwebmin> was successful.

You can then access webmin web console using the following URL:
http://servername:10000

See http://www.webmin.com/solaris.html for more details.

Login using your root (or equivalent) username and password.