HOWTO: Get xterm on Solaris 11 Without installing the Whole of the solaris-desktop Group
By default, when you install Solaris 11 onto a SPARC system using the Solaris text installer, the solaris-large-server pkg group is installed. This is quite a large pkg group that provides most of the software you'd need on a server. One thing it doesn't deliver, and this is deliberate, is an X environment or any of the related libraries, and thus no xterm either. Continue reading ►