First of all, thanks to everyone who commented on my previous OpenSolaris entry (which wasn’t really positive at all).<\/p>\n
I recently tried again – this time starting with an ISO of build 93. I’d recommend completely ignoring the 2008.05 release and going straight for the build 93 image.<\/p>\n
Installed easily in VirtualBox, adding the VirtualBox extensions was easy. Select “Devices -> Install Guest Additions” in the VirtualBox menu, then when logged into the OpenSolaris install, do the following:<\/p>\n
su<\/p>\n
pkgadd -d \/media\/VBOXADDITIONS_1.6.0_30421\/VBoxSolarisAdditions.pkg<\/p>\n
(you then say yes, i really do want to install it. rather obvious. I had to do this step again after the “pkg image-update” below though). Just logging out and then back in again gets you all the awesomeness you’d expect from running other guests (such as that system released by a large corporation in Redmond).<\/p>\n
The “pkg image-update” went as expected, and I’m now running build 94.<\/p>\n
I installed SunStudio Express (compilers) pretty easily – “pkg install sunstudio”. Unfortunately, this is all in \/opt\/SunStudioExpress and not in $PATH, which would have been much more useful. I guess there’s still a bit to go before usability nirvana. Also, no .desktop entries, so have to explicitly run \/opt\/SunStudioExpress\/bin\/sunstudio to get the NetBeans gui. Presumably if i add \/opt\/SunStudioExpress\/bin to PATH, building random software packages will be nicer.<\/p>\n
So, I then want bzr so i can pull source repositories. Monty Taylor informs me that the magic packages you want are: SUNWgcc, gcc-dv and SUNWtoo. Then you can build bzr as downloaded from the website. Installed these easily.<\/p>\n
However, now trying to get the bzr source:
\n$ firefox
\nld.so.1: firefox-bin: fatal: \/usr\/lib\/firefox\/libxul.so: corrupt or truncated file<\/p>\n
and then symbol kPStaticModules: referenced symbol not found.<\/p>\n
So maybe I shouldn’t have upgraded to build 94…..<\/p>\n
But certainly in much better shape than the may release, but be warned, it’s still a work-in-progress and some things may sporadically not work from time to time (e.g. like firefox and now).<\/p>\n
Hopefully, some time soon I’ll get a MySQL build (well… really I want MySQL Cluster, and later drizzle) going and will really be able to hammer these things with dtrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First of all, thanks to everyone who commented on my previous OpenSolaris entry (which wasn’t really positive at all). I recently tried again – this time starting with an ISO of build 93. I’d recommend completely ignoring the 2008.05 release … Continue reading