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Solaris Operating System
Linux Compatibility Technical FAQ
Technical QuestionsQ: Which Linux applications come with the Solaris 9 Operating System?
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The Solaris 9 OS ships with hundreds of the most popular applications, utilities, and libraries that are commonly associated with Linux (freeware). A broad range of categories is covered, including: security tools, administration tools, command-line tools, editors, web infrastructure software, development tools, desktop applications, messaging and network clients, window managers, desktop environment, and accessibility software. The freeware is also available for download. A complete listing of packages as well as links to the download pages is available here:
www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware The software is available in pre-compiled binary and source code format. Q: Are there additional Linux APIs supported in the Solaris 9 platform?
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Solaris 9 OS integrates the key free/open source libraries, granting developers easy access to thousands of Linux compatible APIs.
Glib supports useful data types, macros, type conversions, and a lexical scanner. GTK+ supports graphical user interfaces, including the GNOME desktop. Tcl/TK provides an embeddable command language, and a GUI toolkit, The JPEG, PNG, and TIFF libraries support creating compressed image files in the corresponding formats. And the XML2 library supports structured XML documents through a C language interface. Q: Where can I get more information about GNOME for Solaris 9 OS?
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You may visit: www.sun.com/gnome.
Q: Where can I get more information about Java and other Sun technologies that are available for both the Linux and Solaris platforms?
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Q: What do you mean by freeware?
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Freeware refers to Open Source Software and Free Software. Additional information is available here:
Q: What's the difference between the freeware packages on sunfreeware.com and the freeware packages that come with Solaris 9 OS?
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There are four primary differences:
Q: Are Sun's freeware packages current?
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The Solaris Software Companion CD and download site are updated with each new update of the Solaris 9 OS. We also make interim updates available on the download site.
Q: Which freeware applications in the Solaris 9 OS does Sun provide support for?
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Q: Which package format is used for Solaris 9 freeware?
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The SVR4 package standard.
Q: How do I tell which packages are in a category on the Companion CD?
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Two ways:
Q: I've installed a window manager/desktop environment. How do I get it to appear in the session menu of dtlogin?
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A number of packages need some simple manual post-install work which isn't done automatically because they involve changing system files. For any package which need this, there will be a README in /opt/sfw/READMEs called README.SFW <packagename> (e.g. README.SFWkde).
Q: How can I install packages from the Companion CD without using the installer GUI?
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The packages are on the CD in normal pkgadd format at (relative to the root of the CD) components/sparc/Packages. The packages (and any packages they might depend on) can be manually installed from there using pkgadd.
Q: When I install the Companion CD, I get a Java error.
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You are likely trying to use a new release of the CD with an older release of the Solaris OS. There are three possible solutions:
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