Sun Solaris post installation tips and package management

After installing the Solaris server you need to make sure do the below steps to use great and easy features of Sun Solaris freeware softwares.

This will help you to install packages on Solaris easily without being worry about their dependency.

make sure you have got all the required PATH :

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/sfw/lib:/usr/ccs/lib

export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin

 Download Install make package from sunfreeware.com
Download and Insatll wget from sunfreeware.com
Download Install pkg-get from Sunfreeware.com

edit /etc/pkg-get.conf with (Also configure a proxy serverif there is any):
ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/

Simple installation of applications :

eg : pkg-get -i ncurses
eg : pkg-get -i squid