Solaris Software Companion CD Download for the Solaris 9
Operating System
Welcome to Sun's Companion CD image download site for the Solaris 9 Operating System
for x86 and SPARC platforms. This site enables users to download a
CD (ISO) image of the Solaris Software Companion CD. Included are
hundreds of Linux and other Open Source applications, tools, and
commands built and packaged for the Solaris 9 Operating System (x86
and SPARC). The software is available in pre-compiled binary and
source code format.
As an alternative for users who want to download a subset of
available packages, an individual
packages download site is also available. The individual
packages site might also include new additions and recently updated
packages not yet available here.
Due to the size and complexity of the images being downloaded,
use of the Sun
Download Manager is strongly recommended. For additional
information on downloading and useful troubleshooting tips, please
see the Sun Download Center
FAQ.
Note: These CD images correspond to the Solaris 9 OS
12/03 release. Freeware for earlier releases of the Solaris OS, as
well as a number of additional packages, are available at sunfreeware.com, an independent
Web site maintained by Steve Christensen.
Prerequisites for Installation
Users must have root access and must be able to extract "bzip2"
archive files. Also, users must be able to write (burn) CDs, with
the following exception: If you have Solaris 9 experience, rather
than burning a CD, you might find the "lofiadm" method more
convenient. See below for more information on lofiadm.
Downloading and Installing the Solaris Software
Companion CD
Select the appropriate version of the Companion CD for your
hardware platform (at the bottom of this page).
Login, complete the customer registration process, and agree to
the "Terms of Use".
Download the image file.
Uncompress the image file using a bunzip2 utility. On a Solaris
OS system, the bunzip2 utility is here:
/usr/bin/bunzip2.
Make sure you have sufficient space on your hard drive before
you start the uncompression process.
(Optional) Following is information pertaining to file sizes
and md5sum information:
File Name:
software_companion_sparc.rr.bz2
Size:
489843400 bytes
md5sum:
c49012bc118251f0ddeb44459d449906
File Name:
software_companion_x86.rr.bz2
Size:
455033930 bytes
md5sum:
748bc879b08a78ae701b4fef94e50c82
The md5sum utility is typically distributed as a component of
"textutils", a free software package from the GNU Project. On a
Solaris 9 platform with the Solaris Companion CD installed, the
md5sum executable is in the /opt/sfw/bin directory and is called
gmd5sum.
Create a CD from the CD (ISO) image file using your favorite CD
creation software.
The following paragraph describes an alternative to burning a
CD. It is not a required step. If you plan to burn the image to a
CD, which is probably a more straight-forward method for most
people, skip the next paragraph and go on to step 7.
The Solaris 9 lofiadm(1M) utility allows you to access and mount
an ISO image file directly rather than burning it to a CD first.
This method creates a device node that maps to the ISO image file
and can be mounted using mount(1M). Please read the lofiadm(1M) man
page -- which includes several examples -- for more information.
Once the image is mounted, you can start the graphical installer by
executing `installer' from the top-level directory or you can
install the packages from the command-line using pkgadd (see step
7).
Install the CD you just created onto your Solaris 9 system by
loading it into the CD drive. An install window will appear that
will walk you through the installation process.
Alternatively, because the Companion CD software packages are in
SVR4 pkgadd format, you can also install them from a command-line
(shell) prompt using the pkgadd utility. The packages are located
in the following directory:
/cdrom/s9_software_companion/components/<platform>/Packages
where <platform> is either sparc or intel.
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