Arto's Notes re: Solaris

Creating a User Account

$ sudo useradd -m -c "J. Random Hacker" jhacker
$ sudo usermod -R root jhacker
$ sudo passwd jhacker

$ sudo useradd -m -c "Buildbot slave" buildbot

Adding sudo Privileges

Look in /etc/sudoers.d/svc-system-config-user.

https://blogs.oracle.com/taylor22/entry/adding_users_in_solaris_11

Release Information

$ cat /etc/release | fgrep -v Copy | sed 's/^ *//'
Oracle Solaris 11.2 X86
Assembled 23 June 2014

$ uname -a
SunOS solaris 5.11 11.2 i86pc i386 i86pc

Installing OpenCSW

http://www.opencsw.org/manual/for-administrators/

$ pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now
$ /opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U
$ cp -p /etc/default/login{,.orig}
$ gsed -i 's@#PATH=@PATH=/opt/csw/bin:@' /etc/default/login
$ gsed -i 's@#SUPATH=@SUPATH=/opt/csw/bin:@' /etc/default/login
$ gsed -i 's@PATH=@PATH=/opt/csw/bin:@' ~/.profile

Upgrading OpenCSW Packages

$ pkgutil -Uuy

Using the NFS Client

The NFS client works out of the box without extra configuration.

$ mount nfs.example.org:/home/jhacker /home/jhacker

General Development Environment

$ sudo pkg install developer/versioning/git
$ sudo pkg install editor/gnu-emacs
$ sudo pkgutil -iy joe
$ sudo pkg install developer/build/autoconf developer/build/automake
$ sudo pkg install developer/build/libtool
$ sudo pkg install developer/build/pkg-config
$ sudo pkg install developer/build/gnu-make
$ sudo pkg install developer/gcc
$ sudo pkg install system/header

$ sudo pkg install library/python-2/pip-27
$ sudo pkg set-mediator -V 2.7 python