[OmniOS-discuss] Issues about OmniOS software installation package

[Nan Xiao]

Hi Dan,

Thanks very much for your answer!

But I can't access both ms.omniti.com and http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-ms
ms.omniti.com, could you make sure they are available? Thanks very much!

Best Regards
Nan Xiao

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:

>
> > On Apr 24, 2015, at 5:43 AM, Nan Xiao <xiaonan830818 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am a newbie of OmniOS, and install OmniOS vagrant box today. I have
> > the following issues about software installation package.
> >
> > (1) Is there any repository which provides *.pkg install package for
> > OmniOS? I think it is very convenient to install software than source
> > code.
>
> The "omnios" IPS publisher has some stuff in it.  "pkg search <something>"
> can help.
>
> There's another publisher:  ms.omniti.com, which includes compiles
> packages for things OmniTI uses itself.  It's not officially supported for
> external users, but we sure don't mind people using packages there:
>
>         pkg set-publisher -g http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-ms ms.omniti.com
>
> You should see a whole bunch of new packages there.
>
> Finally, "pkgsrc" is available.  Its maintainer works at Joyent, so
> illumos support (which includes OmniOS) is quite good.
>
> > (2) Could the OmniOS vagrant box with gcc installed? Lacking of gcc is
> awful.
>
> Two versions of gcc are available from the main "omnios" publisher.  Just
> utter:
>
>         pkg install gcc48
>
>         pkg install gcc44                (So you can build illumos-omnios)
>
> and you're golden.
>
> Dan
>
>


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Best Regards
Nan Xiao
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