installing Solaris 10 companion software on Solaris 10 06/06
I want to install the Solaris 10 companion softwares on my machine running Solaris 10 06/06. Since I ont have a direct internet connection to the solaris machine, I downloaded the Solaris 10 06/06 companion DVD from a different machine. I do not have a DVD burner so I used the ISOBuster software to extract the folder that contained the softwares for x86 systems and burned them on to a CD. I then tried used this CD to install the softwares all at a time as by instructions given in the DVD readme file but failed. So I tried to install each software manually as
pkgadd -d <package_name>
but I am getting error message saying :
"pkgadd: Error: no packages were found in </Documents/solaris_/packages/{package_name}>"
example:
#pkgadd -d sfwaalib
pkgadd: Error: no packages were found in </Documents/solaris_/packages/sfwaalib>
where the files from the disk were copied in "/Documents" folder
kindly tell me how to install these softwares.
# 1
I have found that I can not install any additional packages with the "pkgadd -d {package_path}" command. I tried to install SUNWi1cs, SUNWi15cs and SUNWsprox packages from the Solaris 10 06/06 CDs and got the same message that the directory contains no packages. The CDs should be OK because I just installed the Solaris 10 06/06 OS 24 hours ago.
help! I really need to install these packages!
# 3
Thank you. My problem is solved.
But I still can not install the Solaris 10 Companion Softwares by the "pkgadd -d . <package_name>" command. The following error message is displayed:
#pkgadd -d . sfwaalib
pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter <SFWaalib> does not match instance <sfwaalib>
# 4
> Thank you. My problem is solved.
>
> But I still can not install the Solaris 10 Companion
> Softwares by the "pkgadd -d . <package_name>"
> command. The following error message is displayed:
>
> #pkgadd -d . sfwaalib
> pkgadd: ERROR: PKG parameter <SFWaalib> does not
> match instance <sfwaalib>
Did you try making them match then?
#pkgadd -d . SFWaalib
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Darren
