Solaris Companion DVD Leaves Some Things to be Desired
Just performed a clean install of Solaris 10 SPARC and also installed the open-source tools from the Companion DVD. I have a couple of issues to report...
The first is the confusing installation location of the open-source packages. They seem to either end up in /usr/sfw or /opt/sfw. This is great except when the tool that you want, like subversion which seems to have been omitted from the Companion DVD, is not present. If I grab the subversion package from SunFreeware.com, then it installs itself in /usr/local and wants all of the supporting packages to be in /usr/local too.
The second issue is that at least the first KDE application, khexedit, that I tried to start was looking for libstdc++.so.2. That library does not appear to be available on the 11/06 Companion DVD.
