When I mouse over the "Install" link it pops up "Launch the Package Manager and install this package". Uh, no Package Manager. I tried downloading the p5i file and then saying "# pkg install pkg-name" but that didn't work either. This is a mystery.
And while I'm asking, this should probably go in the Solaris subforum but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get there either. Whenever I click on the "ask a question" button it takes me here.
Please note I search the net for quite some time and could not find any "bridge" discussion between the ".p5i" files mentioned in packagemanager and the pkg system on Solaris. This really did not make sense to me.
Why is there no discussion (that I can find) linking the two different package management systems on Solaris?
Well that didn't work but I think we're on the right track.
I tried a few other variations, like this:
I think I just need to figure out what name to feed pkg install. I'd be curious if anyone has been able to install OpenIndiana packages in Solaris 11.4. The one I'm really interested in is firefox. Apparently they have Firefox 60 which is not available anywhere else. The Firefox that comes with 11.4 is 52 which is now way out of date.
OK well I just checked what I should have checked at the start. It turns out that OpenIndiana is only for x86 Solaris, not SPARC. So even if I could download it, it wouldn't run. Sigh.
Thanks anyway though. Perhaps this will be useful to someone else.
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