Community Software Packages

Refer to http://www.blastwave.org/ for additional information concerning Community Software Packages.

Detailed information related to this particular package can be found at http://www.blastwave.org/pkg-get.php.

SUMMARY:Command line utility to update Solaris packages via Internet.

This organization provides pre-built packages for the Solaris operating system for many Open Source and freeware packages. For example, 'pkg-get install dia' would download and install a graphical diagram drawing package. Try: 'pkg-get compare' to see what packages are available and installed on the system. You may want to consider this as an alternative to the "companion" CD (it much easier to keep your packages up to date). NOTE: I think this requires proper installation and configuration of the wget utility.

The BOLTpget package can be installed on a Solaris system using the pkgadd command. You will need to download the package (from http://www.blastwave.org/pkg-get.pkg), extract its contents, and then use the standard Solaris pkgadd command. The following shows the commands used to download the necessary file:

bash# cd /tmp
;bash# wget -nH -nd http://www.blastwave.org/pkg-get.pkg
... lots of output from wget ...
bash#