To prepare a Sun workstation running Solaris, it is recommended to install the pkg-get application from Sunfreeware.com. The pkg-get utility simplifies the process of downloading and installing packages.

The pkg-get requires the availability of the wget utility being properly installed and configured. You can use which wget to verify that the wget is installed on your system. If it isn't found, you can download it from http://www.blastwave.org/pkg-get.php (the same place that you can get the pkg-get utility.

If you are inside a firewall and need to go through a proxy server to access Internet sites (as most of the Tucson AZ computers are), you will need to create a $HOME/.wgetrc file in the following form:

http_proxy = http://172.26.0.232:3128/
ftp_proxy = http://172.26.0.232:3128/
use_proxy = on

You can use the following example to verify that you've properly installed and configured wget. If it works, you will see the IP address as your machine appears to the rest of the Internet:

[pkb@lizard pkgadd]$ wget -O - -o /dev/null http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nst/cgi-bin/ip.cgi
192.101.77.176