Posts tagged with: installation

I encountered a problem this evening that I can't really explain, I couldn't install any pkgs via the Package Manager or command line. Both were failing with the same error: $ pfexec pkg install SUNWant Creating Plan - pkg: The following pattern(s) did not match any packages in the current catalog. Try relaxing the pattern, refreshing and/or examining the catalogs: SUNWant $ At the time I had 2 pkg publishers defined: $ pkg publisher PUBLISHER TYPE STATUS URI OpenSolaris-dev (preferred) origin online http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/ WebStack origin online http://pkg.opensolaris.org/webstack/ $ Both look good to me and have been working fine. I tried ... Continue reading ►

Habari has some pretty stringent requirements that need to be met. Thankfully Joyent's Shared Accelerator (and I believe all other) accounts meets all of these already so there's no need to install any additional software or log tickets to get software updated. You will however need to make some configuration changes which I'll detail here. Continue reading ►

Once upon a time I let it be known that I'd done a fair bit of "playing" with Linux and as a result I attended a RedHat training course. As a result of this, I've been given the task of being one of the primary x86/x64 engineers in the UK solution centre. With this responsibility came a lovely new Ultra 20 to keep my feet warm and the requirement that I need to be able to offer assistance in supporting all the *NIX varieties that Sun supports on it's hardware. Well, never put off my a new opportunity and a chance to play with learn something new, I gratefully accepted the Ultra 20 and set myself the task of installing RedHat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Solaris 10 and Nevada onto the same disk on the same machine. I can happily report, I've done this now and thought I'd share my method. Continue reading ►