Hello:

Would some one pls help me out a little bit?

am new in Solaris. Using 8 in intel platform and nothing seems to be working.
can't find any rgular stuffs - like C compiler - do i have to download all that i need
from the net .

and also not the man pages - i tried
"man ifconfig" should it work in this way in solaris. searched all the man dirs. couldnt find
any thing about "ifconfig".

some suggestion - about getting started - will do....i hope.

thanks..

hi

get a book. quickly.

about the man pages, you must install the appropriate pakages.

check with pkginfo | more or with prodreg (GUI) for man pakages.

nice trips

thanks a lot...

i will check it later on after changing my Hard Disks.
as i use 2HDD in a the same system.
any way lots of thanks.

bye.

Solaris 8 is not the last one, but works well.
What is not working for you ?
This one should be in the solaris companion CD. Just install it from it, or download one from sunfreeware or blastwave.

You probably select an end user (non developer) installation, with which the manual pages are not taken.

Thank You for your reply.

I chose the entire package.

but cannt find any thing rather than just normal utilities.
by the way can any one tell me how "ifconfig" woks in Solaris.

regrads.

by the way how can I tell which package contains what softwares.
they all seem to be with some code name.

regards.

run the product registry (i think!!!), prodreg command from a terminal

That depends on what packages do you want to know the contents.
are they
- already installed packages ?
- packages present on cdroms ?

You must mean the "entire distribution", then "man ifconfig" should work.

All Sun manuals are available on line at docs.sun.com

For example Solaris 8 ifconfig is:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806...9vfilnr?a=view

Hello,

I had the same problem with my software on Solaris 10. It plays a little trick on you (Well, it did for me). Look in /opt/sfw and take a nice, long look at all the beatiful software.

If that doesn't work, try doing find / | grep <softwarenamehere> You should be able to find where they are located. I wasn't able to use any of the software I had installed unless I put in the entire directory of the binary. But, you can make a symbolic link from the binary to a /bin/<namehere>, that'll make it so you can execute binaries whatever your PWD is.

Hope this helps,

-Reth

thankyou all

i installed for the 4th time and this time the packages are working.
but now i have more questions - which i laid down in another POST
naming

Solaris - Questions! Questions! Questions!

I would be glad torecieve any answer of that Thread.

best regards to all of you.

There is a really faster way:

grep <filenamehere> /var/sadm/install/contents

and starting from Solaris 10:

pkgchk -l -P <filenamehere>