GNU Tools for Solaris

Wed Aug 17 21:23:50 PDT 2005

On 08/17/2005 07:17 PM, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> Ben Duncan wrote:
> 
>> Looks Like I will be helping out on a SunFire Server running Slowlaris 8.
>> Anybody know where I can download my beloved GNU toolkit / addons ..
>>
>> Such things as GCC, tcpdump, network utils, log parsers, perl/Python, 
>> locate,
>> development libraries and the like ??
> 
> http://sunfreeware.com is what you are looking for! Navigate the site 
> *carefully* because they have packages for Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 
> 10. You do know how to install those packages, right ? For Linux we have 
> rpm. The equivalent in Solaris is pkgadd ('pkgadd -d <package_name>')

oh, and gunzip the packages *before* running pkgadd.

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