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OpenIndiana uses the same package management system as , IPS, as Oracle Solaris 11, and Oracle is thus far continuing Sun's practice of providing well written manuals:

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The command line package manager is 'pkg'(5).

Package management is done with super-user privileges (when running as a normal user with rights to elevate, prepend sudo or pfexec to the commands below).

Set a remote repository:     sudo pfexec pkg

:; pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev openindiana.org

Search for a package (in remote repositories):    

:; pkg search -pr git

Install a package:     sudo pkg install

:; pkg install git

The above is the "native" OpenIndiana package management, but some packages are may be missing or outdated.

Option 2: Install software from SmartOS repositories via pkgin

All Illumos illumos-based operating systems, like OmniOS, OpenIndiana and SmartOS can use the repository from Joyent/SmartOS.
Main 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/2013Q3/x86_64/  (or http://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/illumos/).

If you want to install software via via pkgin (installs every package to /opt), you need to (console as root):

1. add path to

   add /opt/local

   where

   /{s,}bin where all software is installed to your PATH (in your shell, maybe save to your .profile):

   export

   Code Block
   PATH=/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:$PATH export PATH

2. install the bootstrap-loader:

   Code Block
   :; curl http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/SmartOS/bootstrap/bootstrap-2013Q2-x86_64.tar.gz | gtar -zxpf - -C /

3. update the repository database:

   Code Block
   :; pkgin -y update

4. install the needed package, for example – Apache 2.4.6:

   Code Block
   :; pkgin -y install apache-2.4.6

   or, just for newest 2.4:

   Code Block
   :; pkgin -y install apache-2.

   4  (for newest 2.

   4

   )

For more information see:

• http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Working+with+Packages
• http://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/whats-new-in-pkgsrc-2013Q2.html

Option 3: Compile yourself

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

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:; ./configure

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:; 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.