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Less known Solaris Features: Installing packages directly from web

Sunday, February 24. 2008

Until i´ve finalized my next larger article, i want to give spotlight to a really small, but really useful feature: One relativly unknown feature of recent versions of pkgadd is the ability to load packages directly from web. You just have to specify an URL:

# pkgadd -d http://www.blastwave.org/pkg_get.pkg ## Downloading... ..............25%..............50%..............75%..............100% ## Download Complete The following packages are available: 1 CSWpkgget pkg_get - CSW version of automated package download tool (all) 3.8.4 [..] Installation of was successful. #

That´s all. As the packages just have to be accessible by http, you can use an existing internal webserver to serve your favourite "must-have" extra packages and install them directly from there. Okay, and solves the problem nicely to get started with Blastwave without moving around the pkg_get package via ftp

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 07:03 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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so pkgadd can download packages directly - one less reason to waste time and energy on ips

#1 Mads (Homepage) on 2008-02-24 11:26 (Reply)

well, leaves the problem of getting all dependencies

The case for ips is a little bit stonger than just http download

#2 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-02-24 11:44 (Reply)

pkg-get can also download dependencies

#2.1 Olli on 2008-02-24 16:02 (Reply)

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