Is there a how-to or similar documentation showing how to install and run a Linux app under Solaris 10 x86?
I am particularly interested in running Linux WordPerfect 8/8.1.
I have successfully installed WP8.1/Linux with Free BSD so I have some experience in this sort of grafting.
Hi
You have a few options, none of them are great.
1. Wait for "brandz" (basically, other OS personalities in zones). No idea when this will be available, but I wouldn't count too much on it being in 2006.
2. lxrun. This is part of the companion CD - I'm not aware of any more up-to-date versions (though I've not looked in places like Blastwave). This will require one of 2 suboptions
a) that you install Linux on your UFS filesystem or
b) you install Linux on another partition on your disk/another disk and use an ext2fs driver* to mount the Linux parttion.
The SFW lxrun dates from the time of RedHat 6 or 7.
* e.g., <a href="http://paulf.free.fr/software.html" target="_blank">http://paulf.free.fr/software.html</a>
A+
Paul
Paul/ghenry: thank you/merci:
I've read the documentation about lxrun and "containers"; the later approach was what seemed to be more attractive, namely, providing within the Solaris kernel the ability to trap and translate Linux calls, more or less in the manner of FreeBSD's Linux compat.
The link in ghenry's post is informative; I read French sufficiently to follow the procedure. I'll have to look now for a good lxrun how-to.
Regarding the reported problem printing Acrobat, I have the same difficulty printing Linux apps under FreBSD Linux compatibility. WordPerfect however does print using its own drivers and destination created by the wpdest utility.
