OpenIndiana uses the Image Packaging System - IPS, pkg(5) , the same package management system as Oracle Solaris 11.
Oracle is continuing practice of providing well written manuals: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19963-01/html/820-6572/index.html
To find more information on IPS/ pkg(5), using man command, use:
$ man -s 5 pkg
The command line package manager command is 'pkg
'.
To find more information about pkg(1) , using man command, use:
$ man pkg
In IPS parlance, we are talking about adding publishers in place of term repositories.
Package management is performed using accounts with elevated Role Based Access Control (RBAC) privileges (using pfexec
or sudo
before commands shown below).
$ pfexec bash # pkg set-publisher -g repository_url repository_name
# pkg set-publisher -G old_repository_url -g new_repository_url repository_name
# pkg set-publisher \ -G http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-2015 \ -g https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster openindiana.org
# pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS P LOCATION openindiana.org origin online F https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/ hipster-encumbered origin online F https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-encumbered/
'OpenIndiana hipster' repositories (as of February, 2017)
openindiana.org | https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster | Hipster primary package repository |
hipster-encumbered | https://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-encumbered | Hipster encumbered license packages |
localhostoih | http://sfe.opencsw.org/localhostoih | 3rd party Spec Files Extra (SFE) packages |
# pkg search -rp package_name
# pkg install package_name
# pkg update package_name
# pkg update -v -r
Option pkg -r updates all Solaris Zones , if not issued, thay are kept unupdated untill -r command is issued on update or they are updated separately.
Option 2: Install software from SmartOS repositories via pkgin
All illumos-based operating systems, like OmniOS, Openindiana and SmartOS can use the repository from Joyent/SmartOS. Its main advantage is that you find there a lot of very up to date packages.
A list of available software: http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/ in folder http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/ (or http://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/illumos/).
If you want to install software via pkgin
(installs every package to /opt
), you need to (console as root
):
add /opt/local/{s,}bin
where all software is installed to your PATH
(in your shell, maybe save to your .profile
):
PATH=/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:$PATH export PATH
install the bootstrap-loader
: (use the loader according to your repository, see http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/bootstrap/)
:; curl https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/bootstrap/bootstrap-2016Q4-x86_64.tar.gz | gtar -zxpf - -C /
update the repository database:
:; pkgin -y update
install the needed package, for example – Apache 2.4.6:
:; pkgin -y install apache-2.4.6
or, just for newest 2.4:
:; pkgin -y install apache-2.4
For more information see:
You need a compiler like gcc
; download the sources, switch to the folder with your sources (make the content of your 'sourcefolder' executable recursively) and compile via:
:; cd /sourcefolder :; ./configure :; make :; make install
You might want to first look into ./configure --help
to see what options are available for building the software – quite often, some features useful for you might notbe a general choice enabled by default, or might require other dependency software to be available first in binary or source form, in order to compile.
For building software from NetBSD pkgsrc from sources, see page: pkgsrc in OI .
For contributing to oi-userland, see page: Building with oi-userland