Project Overview
The Solarpack project is...
- A repository of 1400+ pre-compiled packages of free
software for Solaris systems;
- A distribution of the NetBSD package collection tools (NPCT) for
Solaris.
- The home of the Zounds package manager;
Getting started
The complete information on how to install NPCT is in the
NPCT HOWTO.
Once NPCT is installed, you can start installing packages present in the
package listing.
Project motivation
As users of Solaris and Linux, we are disappointed by how scattered are
the efforts around the management of free tools for Solaris.
This situation leads to a lot of re-dos, patching and loss of time for
many of us trying to set-up a software environment on Solaris.
Our aim in this project is to set-up a large, collaborative and
unified effort to build and distribute free software
packages for Solaris.
Our first goal is to create an actively supported and maintained set of
tools, allowing automated "get & install" of up-to-date software. This
will be possible thanks to a centralized point of development, regrouping
and extending already existing efforts
such as sunfreeware.com or Philip
Brown's.
Potentially we could continue by setting up a more elaborate and
complete "solaris distribution" with releases and dependencies like in
linux distributions, and "JumpStart" profiles to simplify the downloads and
installations.
Considering the scattered tools we found on numerous web sites, we think
that folks already developing and maintaining those tools are very
knowledgeable contributors that could make such a collaborative effort a
success in a short term.
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Project News
- 2003/07/01
- There now is a separate download page, with
OpenPGP signatures and checksums for the binary kits.
- 2003/04/21
- We've updated the website. A new package
listing is available, as well as more documentation. We're reaching the
first official release...
- 2003/04/03
- Solarpack NPCT 0.9 has just been released for Solaris8/sparc,
Solaris9/sparc and Solaris9/x86. Read the
documentation for details.
Packages for the three architectures will start beeing released in a few
days.
- 2003/03/19
- We've been working a lot on the Solarpack maintenance procedures. The
repository will start to be updated regularly...
The new features are (mainly):
- full-sandboxed installation (X11 applications are no longer
installed under /usr/openwin;
- Solaris 9 (sparc) support (packages coming soon!);
- Upcoming x86 support.
- 2002/11/14
- We've revamped the site, mainly to make it more maintainable. The
documentation for Zounds! is now also
present.
- 2002/11/05
- The first release of Zounds is almost here. It's already in CVS. Stay
tuned!
- 2002/09/17
- The binary reposository is finally set up; over 1300 packages are
available from SourceForge for your Solaris machines. Read the details in
the (updated) Zoularis on Solaris How-to.
- 2002/08/08
- While the development of Zounds is going on pretty rapidly (thanks to
the power of Python), the package
building effort is continuing.
We now have complete and running Gnome
and KDE distributions, and over a thousand
packages!
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