Summary RE: installing packages without pkgadd

From: Perrier Kent (Kent.Perrier@HCAhealthcare.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 11:19:43 EST


> I fell like a goof. I have built 5 Solaris 8 machines using
> jumpstart.
> These were minimal installs of the operating system. It
> appears that I did
> not specify that that package that contains pkgadd, et el, to
> be installed.
>
> So, now that I know this, I will edit the profile to add that
> package, but
> how to I install the package that contains pkgadd without
> pkgadd being their
> in the first place?
>

As several people have said, this is not possible as the pkg*
utilities are in SUNWcsu, which is a core Solaris package.
Looking at the machines again, I see those files there so I
will have to look at what I was doing yesterday and figure out
what I was doing wrong.

/me feels even more like a goof.

Kent

-- 
Kent Perrier
HCA Healthcare UNIX Certification
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